Hassio Config Backup Strategy

[Kanishkaz (Kaz)]

Hi,

I recently moved to Hass.io from a Hassbian install.

One thing I miss is the ability to backup my config to git/ bitbucket.

What’s the recommended way to backup your config to version control with Hassio?

Cheers.

[Kanishkaz (Kaz)]

Yeah, that would be great.
Just need to be able to define a message, URL, username, password.

Cheers.

[Stimo (Niklas)]

@jurriaanpro

Found out that git is preinstalled in SSH add-on, so I’ll be using that to perform backups

How do you do that?

[Kanishkaz (Kaz)]

Thanks for the heads up. I ended up doing the same thing.

[Stimo (Niklas)]

I can’t rely get the gitupdate.sh script to work, can you share yours @jurriaanpro ?

[Stimo (Niklas)]

Thanks that worked!

How do you run the scripts? Is SSH in, change dir and runt the script the only option or is there a better way?

[oakbrad]

I’ve submitted a feature request for automatic backups here:

Hass.IO service to make snapshot

There are hassio services to start/stop/restart the host machine and apps, it would be nice to also have a service to trigger a snapshot to automate backups.

[DavidDeSloovere]

To get to the config directory where you need to create the git repo, after SSHing into HASSIO:
cd /config

[jamesking]

@DavidDeSloovere

directory where you need to create the git repo, after SSHing into HASSIO:

cd /config

Would it be possible to add an automation/script to run this script every 24 hours, say, and to make the “comment” something like “DATE_OF_BACKUP auto-backup” (Where we replace DATE_OF_BACKUP with the date!)

Any suggestions/advice appreciated.