Hassio snapshots are gigantic

[thesonandheir]

Hello all.

After migrating my Hassio docker setup from Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 4 4gb to Raspbian on an SSD I have struggled to make a backup of the new install because the snapshot file size comes out at around 5.5gb and takes hours to complete.

I’m at a loss to understand why because my Home Assistant folder is nowhere near that large. Config folder is under 100mb and the share folder is reported as 1mb.
I’ve whittled down my database to 32mb (from 500mb) and it’s still taking ages to complete a backup. Google drive add-on is throwing wobblers which is understandable.

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers

[francisp (Francis)]

Exclude add-ons. Especially esphome and vscode.

[tom_l]

Automated snapshot optimisation

Thought this might be of use to someone. I don’t use the google drive backup addon as I don’t like using passwords on my snapshots (as it is impossible to extract files without restoring) and do not want this unprotected data in the cloud. So I create an automated snapshot every night and use a file sync utility on another always on PC to copy the snapshot. This is then copied to my off-site backup monthly. Later in the morning I run the snapshot cleanup service to only keep the last 20 snaps…

Though I use the samba backup addon now this still applies.

[thesonandheir]

I’ve just opened up one of the backups and it seems to be the ADB add-on that is taking up the 5.5Gb.

I will uninstall the add-on and retry a backup.

Thanks

[seanomat]

Or you just take a partial snapshot without some add-ons.

[thesonandheir]

Backup is working fine now and under 100mb.

I uninstalled ADB and reinstalled it. Now it is backing up in seconds.

Something must have gone wrong during initial restore.