Dear all,
before the Version 2025.1 it was possible to select full and partial backup.
Since the new version there is only the choice between automatic and manual one.
With a full backup i created a file about 200 MB. With the new system and manual backup i am only with 50 MB. This isnt the full backup am i right?
Can i trigger a full one? I selected all options as well.
I don’t know if this helps… I was frustrated that I couldn’t exclude my media folder in an automatic backuo. (My Frigate add-on was generating terabytes of storage).
My workaround tht I’ve been using for a couple of years is an automation:
alias: Backup Full-no Media
description: Partial backup with all but media folder
mode: single
triggers:
- at: "14:45:00"
trigger: time
conditions: []
actions:
- data:
compressed: true
addons: >-
a0d7b954_ssh,core_duckdns,15ef4d2f_esphome,a0d7b954_nodered,a0d7b954_ssh,15ef4d2f_esphome
folders: Local add-ons,SSL Share
homeassistant: true
name: Backup Full-No Media (Automation)
action: hassio.backup_partial
In addition I use the Samb Backup add-on to make nightly backups to my NAS. You don’t need a full-blown NAS, just any Linux computer (Raspberry or Ubuntu) running Samba Share will do. (Not the one running Home Assistant).
I don’t use the Nabu Casa storage because even without the media folder my backups are > 1Tb.
Others use the Google backup add-on, but I haven’t.
Before the new update it was possible to use full Backups. Do you know if this ist still available somehow?
I’ve made full backups in 2025.3.4. They’ve been running about the same size as before.
It is a bit more of a process to make one. Now you get a prompt to select what to include. I think Media and Share Folder are de-selected by default, or maybe I did that the first time through, I forget now.
When I setup automatic backups in 2025.2, they were about 1.5 Gb, now they are about 720 Mb.
Just installed HA in Virtualbox and running a restore (you don’t have a backup if you don’t test it)
Restore has finished. Everything is there, so I can say I have a good backup.
170 MB are the full backups with the old Version. Now i have 74MB which is equal to the partial update with the former version.
I also checkmarked all options like media and shared folder.
Thats weird for me.
Copy a tar to your desktop/laptop. You can open it with 7zip and check what is inside.
That is your database (history) It get purged regularly.
Thank you so much.
