HA OS Restore has been a painful experience for the lack of any logging or progress information

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Hi. I've been running HA for years. Before that, I used HomeBridge and NodeRED. HA is the best automation software, no doubt. Last week, I wanted to upgrade from 2025.8 to 2026.5.

I've been running it on a Synology NAS - yes, unsupported, but I believe unsupported is a state of mind. Wasn't HA built on “unsupported" in the first place?

Anyway, I had some issues, but I upgraded it, but now the backups are broken because of some WebSocket issues or whatever. So I wanted to try the supported HA OS way. Got VMM on my NAS, created the VM, etc.

All good except the restore process without any information of progress has been such a painful experience! There is initial progress when HA OS downloads the HA image - why not keep it for restore?....

I initialized the cloud restore as the backup is quite fresh from May 19. I started it maybe 3 p.m. yesterday- it's now 8am I am waking up to a disk usage of 31.52 GB / 32GB and the progress still bouncing from side to side...

I will quickly fix whatever issues I had with the Docker-supervised installation that will have it restored... I'm very frustrated. No access to logs. No obvious way to tell what's going on. Already wasted a few hours yesterday because of other reasons on that restore. This looks like the "Apple" Home experience we all run from.

I don't mind paying for Nabu Casa, I don't mind tinkering but this lock out from essential logging is a wrong way forward!...

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Docker gives far more superiour access and overview:

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I can SSH to each instance, execute commands, see what went wrong!...

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Can't you click on that blue bar?

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Could I? Nothing in the UI told me to. Once it got to the full disk it crashed and I trashed it. Are you blaming the user now? lol

I don't know an app that would hide information behind a progress bar that should be clicked to get one...

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I connected to the VM. I think I did "jobs status" but didnt' see antyhing helpful in there and I'm also unable to scroll the view after connection.

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No. Don't go that route. I remember this was once a circle that you could click to get progress information. It was a genuine question. I don't use this process enough to know for certain. The HA UX is certainly not perfect.

To get a pager (for scrolling) you need to pipe it into less like so

ha jobs status | less

You might have to run login first.

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For now I managed to fix my Supervised Docker install on Synology NAS. Unsupported is a state of mind lol
I got the backups running.
The key was the last mount I did not have propr to 2026:

        volumes:
            - '/volume1/docker/homeassistant:/data'
            - '/var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus'
            - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
            - '/run/supervisor:/run/os'

Although the supervisor is crashing every couple of minutes. Onto it.