Cloud Backup and Thanks

[borland502]

It’d be nice to sync the backups to Google Drive, S3, etc natively rather than through 3rd party components. That said…

THANK YOU DEVS for the damn slick backup system we have now. My penchant for making use of old hardware and experimentation has rendered me eternally grateful for the easy/breezy backup & restore features. I think I’ve shifted computers, recovered from HD crashes, and the like many times now.

And a thank you to this fellow GitHub - sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup: Automatically create and sync Home Assistant backups into Google Drive that ensures backups are tucked safely away off-site.

[ServiceXp (RJ)]

@borland502

THANK YOU DEVS for the damn slick backup system we have now. My penchant for making use of old hardware and experimentation has rendered me eternally grateful for the easy/breezy backup & restore features. I think I’ve shifted computers, recovered from HD crashes, and the like many times now.

Indeed, has worked perfectly for me every time.

[CaptTom (Tom)]

I agree that the Devs have given us some great options, and deserve thanks!

@borland502

It’d be nice to sync the backups to Google Drive, S3, etc natively rather than through 3rd party components.

This may be sort of what I’m getting at with this Feature Request:

Feature Request: Backup Directly to External Storage

Summary: Instead of creating the backup on the same device running HA, then using add-ons or the download option to copy it somewhere else, I’d like to have the option to just create it on another device in the first place. Long, rambling explanation: I’ve heard all the horror stories about SD card failures from too many writes. Yet, there seems to be no alternative when taking a backup. HA on a RPi with SD card is a supported configuration, and that is how beginners are encouraged to start ou…

It takes a slightly different approach, but one I think makes a lot more sense. Often when you need to restore a backup, you have to restore it from another system anyway. Why not save the I/O to your HA storage and create it elsewhere in the first place? Up-vote if you agree.