I have recently installed motionEye add-on and it records clips in /share/motionEye/camera1/yyyy-mm-dd (thank you Frenck)
I also schedule a weeky backup which then is processed using Hass.io Google Drive Backup. (big thank you Stephen)
Challenge is my backup grew from a couple of hundred MB to GB size, which still works but is not really practical.
I could do a partial backup excluding share but there is worthwhile info in there and if I have to do that one manually for sure I’ll forget sooner rather than later.
Probably I can script copying /share excluding the folder in config but have others run into the same issue and if so what did you do?
It’s in the documentation on github. Maybe added since you wrote this? You need to add a line into the JSON of the Config settings for the addon. Here’s the example from the github:
“exclude_folders”: “homeassistant,ssl,share,addons/local”,
I’ve concluded that it’s better to configure a partial backup without plex being backed up regularly because adding the plex metadata alone made my backup over a 1G. That said, if you just want to remove the share directory from the backup, your config file would look something like this:
Didn’t see that and it would have solved my problem, in the mean time I took a different approach. I’ve split my install over 2 pi’s. One with hassos and one with a docker environment.
So I have moved plex, minio, motioneye and calibre to docker on the second pi with a large disk rather than a ha sd card. A reverse proxy pretends that it all looks like one seamless experience.
I created an addon for duplicati that puts a backup on S3 amazon like storage attached to the second pi on a daily basis and in the could on a weekly basis.