I recently updated to use the integrated HA backup scheme to external NAS, but now I realise I can’t extract the files!!
Backups files are e.g.;
Automatic_backup_2025.3.4_2025-03-26_03.00_00000979_meta.json
Automatic_backup_2025.3.4_2025-03-26_03.00_00000979.tar
I can extract the tar, no problem. But then files inside can’t be extracted. take homeassistant.tar.gz for example and test on the cmd line:
$ gzip -t homeassistant.tar.gz
gzip: homeassistant.tar.gz: not in gzip format
What the…
All my backups are like this. Can’t extract a single one. I see the size is more or less what I’d expect.
UPDATE:
so I discovered that this issue exists when I navigate to the backup directly on my NAS and extract the files from there. If I “download” the backup from the HA UI, and extract the downloaded file, everything is ok. What’s going on?
Is it perhaps the encryption?