Home Assistant Backup Scheduler and Monitor

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Hello everyone!
I have developed a package to monitor and schedule Home Assistant backups, both in a local backup location and on a network archive.
The package is based on the supervisor, and if it can be helpful to anyone, I’m leaving the link to the repository.

https://github.com/paolo-hub/Home-Assistant-Backup-Manager

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Did the steps but no entities are valid. Is there something i have to do with the .SH file?

pkg_backup_home_assistant.yaml i add this in my /config/package/ i not make use of this structure at all.
Have everything separate (automations, switches, sensors, etc…

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also see this:

      customize: &customize
        package: "Home Assistant Backup Manager by Paolo-Hub"

    sensor.ha_backup_last_backup_date:
      <<: *customize
      friendly_name: Date
      icon: mdi:calendar-today-outline
    sensor.ha_backup_last_backup_type:
      <<: *customize
      friendly_name: Type
      icon: mdi:format-list-bulleted-type

But where are the info that has to be used in those sensors? for example?

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Hi yes the sh file is for delate old backup based on the slug backup file name.
Just enable the execution
sudo chmod +x /config/backup_remove.sh
It is loaaded as

shell_command:
  # Remove old backup script
  ha_backups_remove_old: /bin/bash /config/backup_remove.sh {{ states('input_number.ha_backup_retained_number')|int(0) }}

Reguarding the vaiuous sensors about the last backup is just for info, reported in the lovelanve card.

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I extract everything to add it in my config and now it’s working.

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#!/bin/bash

KEEP=$1

snaps=$(curl -sSL -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERVISOR_TOKEN" http://supervisor/backups | jq -c '.data.backups[] | {date,slug,name}' | sort -r)

echo "$snaps" | tail -n +$((KEEP + 1)) | while read -r backup; do
slug=$(echo "$backup" | jq -r .slug)
curl -sSL -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERVISOR_TOKEN" http://supervisor/backups/${slug}
done

I guess that I need add a token on the SUPERVISOR_TOKEN location to let this work right?

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The variable is the number of retained backup, the older will be delayed.
This script is integrated in the package, in lovelance interface there is a slider to select the number of retained backup.
If you want execute it manually, invokes the scrip with the number.
You don’t need to add anything.

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thanks!

Is there a reason why you have turn of the compress option?

off-topic: figured out to combine everything into 1 package as you also use. Little different but now everything combined. Will do this with more stuff to make it easier to manage.

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No probem!

I haven’t added the backup compression option because typically the file size doesn’t decrease significantly. However, I could add the possibility to choose.
Regarding the unification into a single package, I didn’t include the deletion of old backups directly in the package. Instead, I implemented it in a script, which is automatically managed by the package. This decision was simply because it was much easier to implement in Bash rather than with templating.

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thank you for the info.

When I do a full backup uncompressed it’s around 2.2GB and with compression 480MB so it makes for me a big difference. I have changed that to compress: true :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the feedback. In this case, I can add a slider to enable/disable backup compression.

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Can be helpful for other users. :slight_smile: