Hass.io Add-on: Upload hassio snapshots to Dropbox

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Nope it doesn’t touch dropbox

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I’ve thought about adding this sort of functionality, but it would probably require adding a dependency. I don’t think the dropbox_uploader script used by this add-on let’s you inspect file metadata (but I’d have to check). The way the current keep_last option works is by getting the creation date from the hassio api, which is obviously not an option for sorting and clearing snapshots on Dropbox.

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Thank you for your answers!
For now I’m using this PowerShell command which runs every night:

Get-ChildItem –Path “C:\path\to\folder” -Recurse | Where-Object {($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7))} | Remove-Item

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How does this help in removing files from the remote Dropbox? Or are you saying you use that instead of the keep_last feature?

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I still use the “keep_last: 7” in the plugin to remove the files locally in Home Assistant.
Then I have Dropbox installed on a Windows VM with this Powershell command scheduled to run every night.
A workaround :slight_smile:

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If I use {“addon”:“7be23ff5_dropbox_sync”,“input”:{“command”:“upload”}} (via the service dev tool), I get a message logged “Error on Hass.io API: Addon is not installed”.

So I figured I probably should use {“addon”:“local_dropbox_sync”,“input”:{“command”:“upload”}} but that doesn’t seem to work also.

Any thought on this?

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I can’t replicate this. Pardon the obvious question, but… Did you install the add-on? If so, how?

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I just followed the instructions on GitHub, I installed the AddOn using the repository. It is version 3.2.4 I got.

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Go to your hass.io dropbox sync page and look at the url, see if it matches the “7be23ff5” part of the addon.

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Probably fixed it trough reinstalling the addon, looks fine now!

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This looks awesome! Is there a way when calling the Hassio snapshot service to password protect it? Just a bit concerned about putting my full snapshot unprotected into a cloud service…

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Yes, you can password protect backups by adding the "password" field to the service call or your automation.

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Great! Thanks

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Hey @Belgarion, thanks for posting. I’d like to help but not sure I understand what you’re asking for. Are you saying it would be helpful if I included an example yaml snippet used for automating in home assistant?

Also, you just need to set the keep_last option in the add on to whatever number of backups you’d like to keep locally. I’d recommend checking out the add-on documentation.

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Hey, what’s the format for uploading to a folder? Does it need backslashes before, after, both or not at all? Thanks :slight_smile:

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For example: use the following to save to a sub folder:

/hassio/backups

The hassio folder will be located in the top level directory of your Dropbox.

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hi Thx!

I currently condensed the code a bit to:

  - alias: Daily Backup at 11 PM and upload at 11.30 PM
    id: daily_backup_and_cleaning
    trigger:
      platform: time
      at: '23:00:00'
    action:
      - service: hassio.snapshot_full
        data_template:
          name: Automated Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}
    - delay '00:30:00'
    - service: hassio.addon_stdin
      data_template:
        addon: "7be23ff5_dropbox_sync"
        input: {"command":"upload"}

would this work ok? what do you think?

I like as few code as possible with the fewest automations possible :slight_smile:

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Thanks @danielwelch !

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Is there a way to give a better name to the snapshots placed in dropbox, instead of e37aba0a.tar?

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No I don’t believe so. if you ever want to restore them they need to have the old name.