I successfully installed Home Assistant on to my iMac using VMWare Fusion and have it set up with my Solar/Battery/Heat Pump and other sensors for lights/heating/car/charger etc.
It does mean that the iMac needs to be on 24/7 and I thought I would try installing HA on my NAS drive under Docker. After a few hours I have the default setup working, however, I want to transfer my latest backup from the VMWare setup to the Docker setup such that I don’t need to set everything up again.
Anyone any idea how I do that? There is an option in the backup/restore to “download” the backup but I have tried and, if it works, I have no idea where its been downloaded and/or how to get that download into the NAS setup.
you need to copy the entire /config directory of your HAOS VM to your NAS, once you done that, make sure to adjust the permissions of that directory of your config you just copied to nas, if you followed the official instruction for docker install on homeasstant website, it should be using homeassistant user, also dont forget to change the config directory to your compose file and point it to that config directory you copied earlier.
I have attached a screen shot of my NAS HA structure. I can see it’s easy to copy/replace this config directory but I cannot open the HAOS VM directory structure to find and copy it. It is running inside a VMware bundle as it tells me.
