How to backup addons without image

Configuration
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How can I backup addons without image.tar? Is it possible?
I have addons with following structure:

data\
  options.json
image.tar
addon.json

However image.tar is too big to daily backup. Is it something build in what I can’t affect it or should it be changed by developer of the addon? Because image.tar is not backuped with every addon but I can find no info about it on dev docs or community :confused:

2

Agree, I also have just rebuilt one of my addons on Debian Bullseye instead of Debian Buster and image.tar is making the size of the backup huge!
Maybe you can open a feature request here: Feature Requests - Home Assistant Community

3

Problem The problem is on side of addon developers.

4

Addon developers can add an attribute called backup_exclude in the config.yaml to exclude files in the addon file system from the backup. However, it does not seem to be possible to exclude those docker layers that make the backup huge. Any idea?

5

I have solved the issue!
In case anyone else is facing the same issue, here’s the link to the post with the procedure I used to solve this: Local add-on: backup size, installing pre-built image without a container registry - #4 by LeoCal