as mentioned frequently and most recently in the release thread
please consider adding events for backup process started/finished/broken and entities for backup in process (binary) backup success (binary)
while on the subject, if at all possible, please add number entities for the individual backup counters.
Usecase/reason:
with the events and binary entities the user can automate notifications and other alerting systems.
the entities can also be used in Dashboard designs so the user is not forced to check the Backup dashboard for these statuses manually.
Aware there is a repair raised, but even that is still a must-go-to, and can be easily overlooked.
thanks for considering
Adding a use-case and context here;
I use an external MariaDB database for the Recorder and one of the things I set up a while back was a shell_command that performs a database backup. Ideally I would be able to trigger this whenever there was a Home Assistance backup triggered, eg on Core updates, on daily schedule, if I run a manual backup. This is easy enough to do if I initiate the backup myself (a simple script can trigger both the HA backup and the database backup).
If the backup events were published into the Event Bus, or any sort of Sensor existed that reflected a new backup was taken, I would be able to trigger external database backups easily and reliably, in lock-step with my HA instance and therefore providing a consistent point in time to roll back to if needed.