"Bricked" Pi4 after OTA update tonight - way forward?

Connect the SD card to your PC.

You will need software capable of reading Linux partitions if using a Windwos PC. DiskInternals Linux Reader is available free.

Find the /config folder on the SD card. There are posts about this on the froum, use the forum search function.

Copy everything in your /config folder, including the hidden .storage directory and files.

Paste this copied data into a new install. With the exception of config/home-assistant_v2.db. Delete this. It never survives the transplant. You will lose your history data.

Restart Home Assistant.

Set up automated snapshots:

To a NAS: Samba Backup: Create and store snapshots on a Samba share

To Goggle Drive: Add-on: Home Assistant Google Drive Backup

To DropBox: Hass.io Add-on: Upload hassio snapshots to Dropbox

To NextCloud or S3: [New Addon] Snap-Shipper - Webdav and S3 backups (and probably other ways to later on)

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