Hassio 0.61 Snapshot Service

mjoshd · November 27, 2018, 2:46pm

The following has been working great for me since the snapshot service was introduced and produces snapshots named like “Full_Snapshot_2018-11-26_0.82.1” (visible from within the snapshots page). Of course the file name is still unreadable, but you can sort those by date to get a good idea of what is what.

Note: I have most of my config files broken out separately for ease of maintenance.

configuration.yaml

automation: !include automations.yaml
sensor: !include sensors.yaml

sensors.yaml

- platform: version
  name: Current Hass Version

automations.yaml

- id: maintain_hass.io_backups
  alias: Maintain Hass.io Backups
  trigger:
  - at: '23:00:00'
    platform: time
  condition: []
  action:
  - data_template:
      name: Full_Snapshot_{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}_{{ states('sensor.current_hass_version') }}
    service: hassio.snapshot_full

roninfr · November 27, 2018, 3:00pm

I will check if that works for me as well.

Update: Same here if i use this as parameter for the service call…

This is what i used for testing:

mjoshd · November 27, 2018, 4:11pm

Ah, I see now that you are trying to do this from within the GUI editor… that will not work as it looks to be using what you put there as a literal string.

When I look at that automation in the GUI editor, all I see is {}. Unfortunately there is still a number of things you cannot set up from the GUI editor at this time.

First thing is that you will need to paste the example directly into your automations.yaml file (be mindful that the indenting stays identical, yaml is very picky about spacing).

Second thing is that you need to either create the sensor that the automation is using (sensor.current_hass_version) or remove that section from the automation

_{{ states(‘sensor.current_hass_version’) }}

or it will fail for sure.

larsentim · November 27, 2018, 6:56pm

Ahh yes - thats why it wasn’t working for me also… I don’t know why I didn’t try it direct through the yaml file…

Thank you

Klagio · November 28, 2018, 11:07am

Hi, my goal is to do a backup only of the configuration files (without the a couple of files: the log and database since combined they are above 1GB).

Is this possible with the partial snapshot?

TonyDams · November 28, 2018, 11:14am

@Klagio Maybe is that what you’re looking for? Configuration Backup to GitHub

roninfr · November 28, 2018, 1:00pm

Oh ok did not know that. I was trying to use this as i wanted to test it before using it within my automation.
As i am not using the normal configuration for my automations but node red i think i need to figure if that is even possible to work out the way i wanted to have it.

I have created the sensor before doing the test as i thought the version would be a good idea as additional info

Klagio · November 28, 2018, 1:06pm

Nice link, that’s a good idea, need to make a better use of the secret file though. I have so many files to fix for privacy issues, ultimately I will do it. Hope for a different solution in the meantime

TonyDams · November 28, 2018, 1:25pm

2nd Option : look at NotoriousBDG answer on partial snapshot

Esteban_Traid · December 16, 2018, 9:07pm

Hi. I have been using the (full) snapshots & Dropbox Addon very successfully for some months, but now I have started saving motion video and I have a huge “shared” folder that I need to exclude… can you point me to any docs or tell me how to do that? I guess what I need is a partial backup that includes all (config, ssl, addons) EXCEPT the “share” folder.

Thanks in advance…
ET

Dave_H · December 16, 2018, 9:19pm

i would like to recommend this for google drive users https://github.com/samccauley/addon-hassiogooglebackup#readme

i installed it yesterday, and it works great for Gdrive

full credits to the creator sammccauley

pejotigrek · December 17, 2018, 9:52pm

I’ve got a question about “keep_last” argument - it indeed deletes snapshots that are over the given limit, but is it possible to reflect this change also on dropbox?

I mean - it’s cool that my microsd card isn’t going to fill up, but I’ve noticed, that the deleted snapshots are still on dropbox, and slowly are filling it up over there.

CarlE · December 23, 2018, 9:57am

I’ve got the same question, using Plex and Motion with their files in the share folder.

cherokee93 · December 28, 2018, 9:20am

Hey guys,
any idea how to make this partial snaptshot work?

- alias: Backup H 3.00AM
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '03:00:00'
  action:
  - service: hassio.snapshot_partial
    data_template:
      name: "test partial {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"
      addons:
        - 03d23610_dasshio
        - 7be23ff5_dropbox_sync
        - 3833edd4_googlebackup
        - a0d7b954_ide
        - a0d7b954_logviewer
        - a0d7b954_ssh
        - addons_local
        - core_duckdns
        - core_rpc_shutdown
        - core_samba
        - fe49a976_google_assistant_webserver
        - homeassistant
        - share
        - ssl

What I want to do is partial backup of everything except for the mariadb database (not really needed), but there isn’t a filter option afaik. And this automation only saves plugins data but not

- homeassistant
- share
- ssl

Any Idea?

Happy new year fellows

EDIT: Got it to work!

- alias: Backup H 3.00AM
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '10:28:00'
  action:
  - service: hassio.snapshot_partial
    data_template:
      name: "test partial {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"
      addons:
        - 03d23610_dasshio
        - 7be23ff5_dropbox_sync
        - 3833edd4_googlebackup
        - a0d7b954_ide
        - a0d7b954_logviewer
        - a0d7b954_ssh
        - addons_local
        - core_duckdns
        - core_rpc_shutdown
        - core_samba
        - fe49a976_google_assistant_webserver
      folders:
        - homeassistant
        - share
        - ssl

We need a documentation page though.

Also, what is the addons_local.tar.gz file? It’s just a blank archive. Is it needed?

oncleben31 · February 18, 2019, 8:28am

Do you know if an event is raised when the snapshot is finished ?

ronschaeffer · February 18, 2019, 11:20am

Asking again as Hassio 0.61 Snapshot Service…

Is there any way to know if a snapshot service call fails?

Thanks

Lunken · March 12, 2019, 10:11pm

Thanks, that did my day but I used persistent_notification.create as notifier which needed som extra citation marks

action:

service: hassio.snapshot_full
data_template:
name: Aut Backup {{ now().strftime(’%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M’) }}
service: persistent_notification.create
data_template:
message: “Created backup named Aut. Backup {{ now().strftime(’%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M’) }}”

mat44150 · July 25, 2019, 12:49pm

Hi,
Is it possible to have the snapshot filename matching the snapshot description ? The filename is completely random, and I have modify it manually.
Is there a HASSIO service capable of reading the snapshot name, and can we use a script to rename the .tar file automatically ?
Thanks for your advice!

DavidFW1960 · July 25, 2019, 10:39pm

Try restoring a snapshot you renamed and find out why you shouldn’t do it.

mat44150 · July 26, 2019, 11:08am

Thank you for this information, that’s something I didn’t know… I guess all my backup are unusable now. It would be worth being written somewhere on the snapshot creation/restore page.