How to remove backup files

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I have created backup schedules to write to my 2 synology NAS servers. All is going well here. But…I have noticed that on my HA SSD there are still many older backups that I would like to remove to free up space. I have not been able to find this from within HA so I’m a bit puzzled here. What direction do I need to look?

Kind regards…

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You have two easy options:

  1. Delete it from within the Backup Setting, i.e. go to
    Settings - System - Backups - Show all backups - Enter selection mode (the symbol between Filers and the Search field)
    and check the box for theones you want to delete and go with ‘Delete selected’ in the top right corner
  2. If you have SMB access enabled on your HA Host go to \\Your.IP.Address\backup and delete from there
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Hi,
happy new year. Thanks for your answer.
I tried using your suggestion but I don’t see the backup folder.

When terminal to my ha system this is what I see
Screenshot from 2026-01-01 10-13-19

I’m still confused why there is a backup folder I can’t see…

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if you installed the samba add-on, backup should be visible

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What you did had nothing to do with what I suggested.

How did you install Home Assistant on your Pi?

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What that pictures shows looks like your Windows User Directory, and i doubt “dir” is working in HA’s filesystem

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Thanks for the tip. I didn’t have Samba implemented. Having done so I could see that in the backup folder there were old backups from 2024 still present. Strange enough I could not see them in the backup overview itself. However, with Samba I could look into the folder itself. I have deleted all of them and the backup is now only 3.5Gb.
Thanks for the tip! Issue has been solved

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