I really screwed up Home Assistant today trying to install the SSL certs so that I can access HAOS from TailScale but that’s not the point of my TED talk.
I could not login at all my only access was the command line. I had to restart in safemode to keep the errors from taking over the screen when I was trying to type in commands.
Here’s where I ran into some trouble. There appears to be a way to do a backup restore from the HA menu, but it really sucks and it changed syntax recently according to some posts is found. I couldn’t restore a partial automatic backup and you have to add a bunch of flags to do a simple restore including one for the password which it didn’t accept because maybe it’s looking for the encryption key instead of the password?
The problem is the only documentation I could find was outdated. Someone who worked on the latest version of backup and restore should write up a document on how to do it from the command line if it doesn’t exist already.
After bashing my head against the wall for more than an hour chasing leads I punted and reinstalled HAOS and I hope that Last nights Autobackup works.
Here are some articles that “helped” but not enough
Thanks Tom, yeah those are a list of possible commands not an actual list of steps on how to recover from a catastrophic incident.
Also to be pedantically accurate it would be ha > backups restore --help
which gives you a less than useful
Usage:
ha backups restore [slug] [flags]
Whats a slug and which flags should I use? it lists as examples --app core_ssh, --app core_mosquitto , --folders homeassistant .
and after I tried all of those things it complained that it was a partial restore.
Also to reiterate you have to give it a password and it didn’t like my user password, so whats that about.
I’m not qualified to make a tutorial since I failed miserably, I’m just saying someone who knows how it is supposed to work should probably make a list of steps. Either that or some YouTuber could tell me what to do after 3 minutes of like and subscribe nonsense.