I had an HA installation on Raspberry Pi 4 running on microsd card, and wanted to switch to NVMe for performance. I flashed the pi to boot from USB then used the Raspberry Pi imager to create a brand new Home Assistant image on the NVMe drive. After restoring backup (three different attempts/ways) I am still encountering an issue where something is happening that causes my config yaml file to “not be accessible,” and can’t do much of anything besides pull the power and let it reboot. When first rebooted (and for much of the first day afterward) it runs fine, much faster than the old storage. But somethings happening where HA isn’t configurable any more, so I can’t look at the logs until I hard restart. After hard restart, I don’t see any logs before the restart. The only other tell-tale sign I’m seeing is when it becomes non-responsive, I lose information in my lovelace card for the battery backup plugged in via usb to the raspberry pi 4.
oh…forgot to mention here’s the 3 different restore methods I tried, all producing same results:
- clean HA install with Raspberry Pi imager to NVMe drive, at initial prompt restored full backup
- clean HA install with Raspberry Pi imager to NVMe drive, at initial prompt restored partial backup (no add on info), manually installed add-ons, restored the rest of the full backup for the add-ons
- clean HA install with Raspberry Pi imager to NVMe drive, walked through initial setup, restored partial backup (no add on info), manually installed add-ons, restored the rest of the full backup for the add-ons