My crashed HA install is on a Home Assistant Blue / Hardkernel ODROID-N2/N2+.
I will be attempting to re-write the HA image to its eMMC storage using the Balena Etcher program and my desktop computer. I’m following the instructions found online at: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/odroid/.
My question comes in advance to actually starting this process. During the initial onboarding process the instructions indicate I can restore from a backup. My backups are located on my home network in a shared backup folder. Are these backups accessible during the onboarding process?
I’m replying to my own question here for posterity.
Yes, you can use a backup from a local network location. During the onboarding restore from backup you are using your web browser to communicate with the HA instance. So, via browser scripting you get the standard Windows File Open dialog, and this allows you to point to the backup file on your network.
This all went well as far as using the Balena Etcher program to re-write the HA image. Luckily, I had previously purchased spare eMMC cards and the programmer board.
However, I found that some things didn’t restore from the backup, like; Static IP address for the Odroid and Storage locations I had for backups and file sharing. The missing network storage locations did cause HA to boot up in Recovery Mode until those configurations were recreated manually.
If backing up those missing attributes is important, you should raise that as an issue on GitHub so the developers can update their backup parameters to include them.