I'm silly and I deleted the configuration.ymal file

Configuration
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Hello, sorry in advance for the silly topic.

I’m new to home assistant (installed on a raspberry pi) and while I was setting some stuff up I realised there were two configuration files in the config folder. One was empty and, of course, I decide to delete it.

Now I can’t access to home assistant anymore, neither from the browser or ios app.

Anything I can do or do I just need to start over?

Thanks in advance

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I have read that restarting will recreate it, but I’m not going to try that.

You can probably start by creating a new configuration.yaml file with just the line:

default_config:

And back up frequently. There are add-ons that will backup on a schedule and store the backups away from HA (like in Google drive)

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If you can obtain any HA backup files from your device, you can extract files from that backup file using 7-zip.

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did you have the samba addon installed? i screwed up my config before but samba still got loaded and was able to restore the config yaml.

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I didn’t but thanks for letting me know, I will install it