I wanted to share a suggestion regarding Home Assistant’s automatic backups. I’ve been using the API to save backups to Google Drive, and it’s been awesome! Lately, though, I’ve been running into some API and connection errors. My idea is to add a new option for retries if a backup fails. It would be great if we could customize this, for example, to automatically try again in 15 minutes.
Huge props to the entire Home Assistant team—this application is truly fantastic. I hope to keep contributing with improvements and feedback.
You can easily run an automation to do this with the new improvements in backups.
Something like:
When: Backup state goes from “Creating a backup” to “Idle” for 15 minutes
And if: Last successful Automatic backup is > 1 hour ago (you’ll need a template for this)
Then: Run automatic backup.
You’ll need to have at least 2025.4.0 installed, but it’s easily achievable with the current tools.
Same here. It would be nice if the built-in backup worked as seamlessly with Google Drive as the Google Drive Backup add-on does. It doesn’t need an API key or a dev account at all.
