Is there a way to just extract a single specific file, for instance the configuration.ysml file from a full ha backup using a Windows PC.
I tried using 7 zip but I never could drill down into the home assistant folder in the compressed backup. Is there some special software tool I need to install on the PC to do this?
You should be able to. See: Can I restore a single HACS integration data from a Backup? - #2 by tom_l
Hi,
I'm not really looking to retire the file back into home assistant. I looking to just be able to view or copy the contents of script files or yaml files. So it's more about how to drill down to them and then opening them .
What I ran into when I tried to do this was I used seven zip and I drilled into the home assistant folder. But each time I did that there was another home assistant folder inside of that that wasn't marked as a.tar.
It also was identified as a file and not a folder.
So I would try renaming that file to be a tar and it was then identified as a compressed archive, I'd open that and I had the same problem one after another after another it seemed like no matter how far I went down through these levels I was always faced with another home assistant file that wasn't marked as a tar.
The configuration file is in homeassitsant/data. You can extract that and copy out whatever you want.