When calling the service homeassistant.snapshot_partial from developer tools > services it results in an empty tar file (10kb). However, when I call the service homeassistant.snapshot_full I get a complete backup. This behaviour also occurs when both services are called from within node-red.
When I start partial and full snapshots from Hassio > snapshots everything is fine and I get the files I expected.
I currently run an automatic backup to dropbox through node-red which performs a full snapshot once a week and a partial snapshot every other night only to find that the partial snapshots are empty tar files and useless. I am running Hassio 0.85.1 on a pi 3 b+. Has anyone seen this before I re-image a new SD card and start again? Do I need to add what bits in a partial snapshot I’d like included?
Unfortunately I do not know the format for automating this. I have asked (I would like to exclude my enormous esphomeyaml directory from automated backups).
I thought, perhaps, by default it would perform the same as clicking “create” and the partial snapshot would contain everything.
Hopefully someone could point me to any comprehensive documentation that details this service. I’ve reproduced a node-red flow that Rob from TheHookUp uses for a dropbox back and endeavouring to add a watch folder to it to automatically create a partial snapshot when I modify any yaml file.