“Storage corruption”
- Get a new SD card (not the cheapest you can find)
- Reinstall Home Assistant
- Restore from Backup.
Unless you did your backups on the SD that failed, you should be fine.
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Yeah big problem with that the backup is 23 minutes old meaning it backed up at the worst possible time.
Only have 1 backup ?
I have an old one but it’s in a VM how do I recover from that one ?
Thank you I’ll let you know what happens.
This is one of the reasons I never use VM’s or containers. (Yes, I know that HAOS is a Docker container).
Boot into the VM and find the backup. It will be a tar file, like
2025_5_3_2025_06_16_03_32.tar
Copy the tar file to a thumb drive or somewhere on your network. After reinstalling Home Assistant, you need to get this file into the /backups folder. How you get there varies depending on how you install Home Assistant.
When you install Home Assistant install the Advanced SSH & Web Terminal add-on. Then you can SSH into Home Assistant from your PC and just copy the file.
If your VM is on the same disk with the “Storage corruption”, you aren’t totally screwed, but you sure made more work for yourself.
It is also possible to mount the SD card on a linux computer and find the tar file there.
(I realize that nowhere did you say this was an SSD card that failed, but from the symptoms, it is an easy assumption).
Thanks for your help guys this is the second time this has happened but by far the worst,
Lucky with your help I was able to get the old backup file and I’m going to restore from that it’s a bit out of date but far better than what I’m working with.
I think that I caused this because I said yesterday that it’s been running so smooth now this.
That’s not really a fair assessment of VMs. They are very reliable, easy to backup and fast to repair. In most cases, it is the hardware or a poor setup tthat causes issue.
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Naming depends on what made the backup
Automatic…tar is from the new system
short names are from the google drive backup add-on
I suspect
comes from the Samba backup add-on ?
Anyway, on proxmox, I still have the VM backup if everything fails.
If you get it running again, make sure to set up automatic backups, and make sure you copy them somewhere else then your HA
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Good observation. Yes, it is from my nightly Samba backup. I’ve never needed it, but it’s comforting to see it in my backups share.
On reconsideration, I did use 7zip a few weeks ago to recover an ESPHome configuration that I had fracked up.