Use Samba, copy /config including all hidden files and subdirectories to a pc. Restore by copying them back. Takes less then a minute. (OK, only HA, not the addons)
unfortunatley I needed to replace my SSD, so I thought just restore a backup, but several attempts and still nothing
I installed Ssh and checked the ātopā command,
I noticed the nic usages is really high, even before starting the restore.
Mem: 1207612K used, 2721204K free, 1224K shrd, 68084K buff, 555552K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 98% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.01 0.16 0.12 2/398 472
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
423 357 root R 1708 0% 0 0% top
246 25 root S 7000 0% 2 0% ttyd -d1 -i hassio -p 64296 tmux -u new -A -s homeassistant zsh -l
356 354 hassio S 6496 0% 1 0% sshd: hassio@pts/0
426 424 hassio S 6496 0% 1 0% sshd: hassio@pts/1
424 325 root S 6252 0% 0 0% sshd: hassio [priv]
354 325 root S 6252 0% 1 0% sshd: hassio [priv]
325 27 root S 6244 0% 3 0% sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D -e [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
357 356 root S 5524 0% 3 0% -zsh
427 426 root S 5404 0% 3 0% -zsh
27 1 root S 204 0% 3 0% s6-supervise sshd
26 1 root S 204 0% 0 0% s6-supervise s6rc-oneshot-runner
24 1 root S 204 0% 2 0% s6-supervise s6rc-fdholder
15 1 root S 204 0% 0 0% s6-supervise s6-linux-init-shutdownd
25 1 root S 204 0% 1 0% s6-supervise ttyd
1 0 root S 200 0% 3 0% /package/admin/s6/command/s6-svscan -d4 -- /run/service
17 15 root S 192 0% 1 0% /package/admin/s6-linux-init/command/s6-linux-init-shutdownd -c /run/s6/basedir -g 3000 -C -B
35 26 root S 180 0% 0 0% /package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserverd -1 -- /package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserver-access -v0 -E -l0 -i data/rules
then after I click restore,
the interface looses connection, but ssh stays alive so HAOS doesnāt restart.
But Load increases
Mem: 2312596K used, 1616220K free, 1132K shrd, 68372K buff, 1821188K cached
CPU: 6% usr 19% sys 0% nic 74% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.78 0.32 0.17 4/363 524
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
246 25 root S 7000 0% 2 0% ttyd -d1 -i hassio -p 64296 tmux -u new -A -s homeassistant zsh -l
356 354 hassio S 6532 0% 3 0% sshd: hassio@pts/0
426 424 hassio S 6496 0% 1 0% sshd: hassio@pts/1
424 325 root S 6252 0% 0 0% sshd: hassio [priv]
354 325 root S 6252 0% 1 0% sshd: hassio [priv]
325 27 root S 6244 0% 3 0% sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D -e [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
357 356 root S 5532 0% 3 0% -zsh
427 426 root S 5404 0% 3 0% -zsh
524 357 root R 1708 0% 1 0% top
27 1 root S 204 0% 3 0% s6-supervise sshd
26 1 root S 204 0% 0 0% s6-supervise s6rc-oneshot-runner
24 1 root S 204 0% 2 0% s6-supervise s6rc-fdholder
15 1 root S 204 0% 0 0% s6-supervise s6-linux-init-shutdownd
25 1 root S 204 0% 1 0% s6-supervise ttyd
1 0 root S 200 0% 3 0% /package/admin/s6/command/s6-svscan -d4 -- /run/service
17 15 root S 192 0% 1 0% /package/admin/s6-linux-init/command/s6-linux-init-shutdownd -c /run/s6/basedir -g 3000 -C -B
35 26 root S 180 0% 0 0% /package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserverd -1 -- /package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserver-access -v0 -E -l0 -i data/rules
So itās doing something,
only no clue what it does,
Nic usage goes down a bit,
I think ānicā stands for āniceā and I donāt know what it means, I first thought ānetwork interface cardā, but now I think itās just nice
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I definitely think the restore backup process could use a little love from the developers, But I also know that there is plenty of work which can use some.
Agreed. On my NUC with i7 restore takes as long as 3-4 hours, while CPU doing basically nothing (load is a few percent).
I recently decided to switch from a cheap 128GB SSD back to a more expensive 256GB SD card and I gave up using the restore function. I just canāt wait that long.
I simply use balenaEtcher to copy the whole disk. It was quicker and always work.
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Yeah, well, thatās possible in your case, but not if something goes wrong. In this case only restore helps, or even worse: reformat SSD, reinstall HA and only then do a restore.
I really wonder what on earth takes sooooo loooongā¦ ??
I just spent the last couple hours getting to the point of a restore onto a newly upgraded Samsung EVO SSD. I then hit this āI wonder how long this will takeā point after seeing the restore without a progress indicator. Googling/searching, I found the comments above.
I abandoned the restore and took the advice of @starryalley above: took everything back a few steps to a basic balenaEtcher to clone and Iām now up and running 30 mins later. Everything looks okay and I was able to test a kitchen switch, but will spend a little more time validating the restore. So far it appears okay and Iām now seeing the bigger available disk space. I thought I would have to go back and do some manual additional steps to expand a drive or something, but it appears to be okay.
Talk about easy! Great tip. Skip the backup and restore from backup!
Restoring from an NUC to an Unraid VM - Backup is about ~750mb
Running on a N6005 Unraid VM since ~60 minutes. Fingers crossed that this will work. Seems like itās only utilising 1 core out of 4 from the VM while restoring.
Please upvote this feature request:
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Voted for that feature request. My HA installation went somehow broken after trying to update to 2023.9.3, HA never woke up after update. Then the basic turn power off - turn power on didnāt help either, said my HA IP address was unreachable. So, since nothing else to do, I did that classic balenaEtcher to my SSD (I have RP4 with SSD), and then at least I got life to my HA IP address again with that omboarding process. Uploaded my full backup from last night (1,9 GB) and itās still restoring after one hour. Seems like I need to wait at least 2 hours moreā¦ But giving us some info, if not progress bar, at least something else than forever running circleā¦
OS 11 broke one of my HACS integrations so trying to roll back with the latest backup. 6.5 gig. Now 4.5 hours and counting!! Fingers crossedā¦
Edit:
Took 8 hours and then realizing that the backup of course doesnāt include the os 
So after 8 hours spent for nothing and 5 mins to downgrade the os (from cli, ha os update --version 10.5) everything is fine!
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Which integration was broken?
Hassio plejd.
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After 4 hours I gave up restoring a complete 750MB backup to a sd-card on an Odroid N2+.
A bit more information about the restoring process would be greatly appreciated (already voted for the progress indicator feature request).
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I think you gave up just before endā¦ 
Although i support progress indicator iād rather vote for solving this slow process and have faster restoreā¦ I can confirm that itās definitely not machine problem, since restore took a good 4 hours on i7 6x series NUC with 32GB of ram, running HAOS.
It is a process problem. It takes far less time to restore manually the core component.
If you search Github for one of the issues which was created regarding the slow restore, then you will find a description how to manually restore core in 5 minutes to a working order.
ahaā¦ sound great, butā¦ thereās over 2000 ācasesā for core aloneā¦ do you have some links by any chance?
If you think using the search for me is easier than for you, then you are absolutely wrong! And you should do a favour!
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Well, that depends on your and my knowledge of english, resulting in finding correct words for searchingā¦
Thanks for the link, although itās more for cases when HA doesnāt work anymore, not for cases when it works, but a person wants to go back for various reasons (like one integration not working after update). And itās hardly 5 minutes of workā¦ just reinstall HA takes more than that. But, itās less than 4 hours, that part is true.
You must be a mathematician!
You can restore core by reverting the image to an older one (which you wanted to restore) and restoring the files through the ssh addon from the backup. You donāt have to reinstall HA.
But all it is an overcomplicated manual process which I do not advise, unless you really know what you are doing.
Until the issue is fixed. You should stay with restoring backups the official way!
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Yeah, luckily it doesnāt happen often. Although i never reverted HA manually i did āgo backā once or twice āofficialā way, i just ran restore before going to bed and in the morning all was ok. I do some basic linux stuff every now and then, but thatās all. I agree, itās complicated and easy to do even more damage.
(and, sorry, not mathematician, true electronicystā¦)