How to restore a backup

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A quick tip to anyone looking to perform a backup restore on Home Assistant OS: The restore process takes a long time and it will not be obvious how or if it is progressing.

In my case, for a >1GB backup file the process took over an hour on a RPi4, during which HA become unavailable in the browser and all the Supervisor logs said was that “Backup restore started” and “Home Assistant was stopped” for a very long time, which did not make it clear the process was progressing in the background and in fact I thought something has gone wrong and restarted the RPi.

So just be patient, it takes a while…

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It depends on your hardware and the size of your backup. My 500Mb backup /restore only takes a few minutes on an Intel NUC i3.

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The method shown in the first post in the video seems no longer valid:

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@tom_i
Please adapt

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Yes, the “Restore from backup” is no longer there. As in https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/onboarding/

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Anyone know where it is now?

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Same here, restore from Backup is Gone from the Onboarding Screen. How can I migrate to another device?

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Ok, I dived into the Docs and found, that the Restore Option is not working, if you ran HA in a container (docker). I switched from RasPi to Docker, so that’s the reason why I have no restore button.