Today I had to restore a Home Assistant (partial) backup - due to an irrepealable ShellyForHASS (shelly custom integration) issue. First time to restore a backup ever (since running HA productively). Well:
Database is fine after restore, passed all integrity checks, all data there. 
So it seems like these mentioned fixes (How to make a full backup and restore with all the data as well? - #2 by tom_l) have been implemented/rolled out meanwhile:
The only negative side effect was the missing “config” SAMBA share:
It was available but not accessable, no content. Not via SAMBA clients, not for any addon.
Solution:
- Restart SAMBA share addon:
→ now working for SAMBA clients and other addons, but: not for the host itself (HA OS) - see [*1] below. Therefore step 2: - Restart Host / HA OS
(maybe there’s also a magic remount command or sth to avoid a host reboot, did not investigate further)
→ Now also the host is able to access/configagain.
That is certainly not a perfect “restore experience” but related to the database pretty smooth. Makes me a lot more confident to restore backups in the future.
Anyway, that SAMBA thing is something probably worth reporting.
Where to? To that addon repository and the HA OS repository? What do you experts think.
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