First, I should say I’m running HA in a VM (Oracle Virtualbox). I’ve tried everything I can think of. I get the add on installed and configured, but can’t figure out what IP address I should use to connect (I’m on Windows 10). If I go to File Explorer and click on network, I see HA, but not the samba share. I’ve looked in the log and can’t tell what the IP address is (it seems I access it by \. Can someone lend me a hand.
And before I go too far down this rabbit hole, what I’m trying to do is get the backup file, and then copy that into a VmWare VM to install. Can this be done?
With the samba add-on you use the same IP address that your Home Assistant instance uses…
Then on the Configure network interfaces click the 3 dots.
and then IP information.
OK, I can get to it now and can copy the backup to my windows machine (that I’m running the VM on). Will I be able to import that into the new VM somehow?
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you need, I think you’re overthinking it.
If all you need is a local copy of your HA backup to use when creating a new VM, then the steps are quite straightforward:
In HA, go to Settings > System > Backups.
Click the name (not the checkbox) of your most recent full backup - a popup should appear with “Restore” at the bottom.
Ignore the “Restore” option and click the 3 dots > Download Backup. This will download a copy of your backup to whichever PC you’re using to access HA. In Windows, this will probably default to saving the backup to your Downloads folder.
Set up your new VM and install HA
At the HA onboarding screen, you’ll get an option to upload a backup. Simply use the backup you just downloaded and you’re good to go.
