Entire Home Assistant install blown away

Configuration
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I’m pretty stumped here. I hadn’t checked my HA in several days, so I just opened up the app and it brought me to the “get started” page where it wants you to set up your automated home or restore a backup. It’s like it’s a 100% fresh new install with no sign of my actual configuration. I’ve done backups, but those were stored on the USB SSD and not on my local machine so I can’t restore from them. I tried plugging the USB SSD into my computer so I could look for the backups I made on there, but it looks like only the boot partition is visible.

I have no idea what happened, I haven’t make any changes and wasn’t messing around with it at all. Any thoughts on what might have happened or what I might be able to do to salvage my install?

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If using window try diskinternals linux reader

This should allow you to copy your backup to your pc then restore it. Once restored install

As for what happened I have no idea but have heard of it happening before.

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Or if you don’t want to use Google or would prefer to store your backups locally check out the alternatives under option 5 here: https://www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os/#copying-your-backups-to-another-location personally I love SAMBA backup, but you need a network share to copy to.

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Thanks. Is this the right location? /mnt/data\supervisor\backup\ There’s nothing in there… I also browsed to my configuration.yaml file using Linux Reader and it’s the default stock file without anything of my customizations… It really looks like the whole drive was wiped with a new installation. I don’t get how this could have happened…

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You can read your card in windows using, then just change the settings back or swap the config file from the backup.