Is new system backup forgetting to backup local addons?

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Seems the new backup system isn’t including addons_local.tar.gz for me. Do your backups include it?

Here’s a backup from Jun 12th, 2025:

 $ tar -vtf 24f64650.tar | grep addons
 -rw-r--r-- 0/0           25650 2025-06-12 03:01 addons_local.tar.gz

addons_local.tar.gz contains the /addons directory, used for local add-ons.

That is no longer in my automatic backups. I just created another backup turning everything on:

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Which generated this:

  /backup ls -lt *.tar | head -1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     697507840 Jan  2 17:48 test2_2026-01-02_17.48_44073828.tar

➜  /backup tar -vtf test2_2026-01-02_17.48_44073828.tar | grep local
-rw-r--r-- 0/0   3830252 2026-01-02 17:48:47 local_zwavejs2mqttlr.tar.gz

That’s the add-on created by the local addons config. But the actual config to generate that addon is not backed up.

There are other posts where you can see that local_addons.tar.gz file used to be included.

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By the way, this is what clued me in on the issue. After restoring on a different machine I got this repair:

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I don’t want to uninstall the add-on. The I manually restored the local add-on config to the /addons directory and restarted.

How do I remove the repair issue? Is there someplace they are stored I can modify?

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I just started programming few custom addons and wanted to check if the addons folder is included in backup process or whether I should make the “addons” folder a repository and keep pushing the changes offsite.
Thanks for this report - I now see they are supposed to be backed up but they are not… I hope this bug will be resolved quickly.

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The automatic backup system only creates one file. It does not create mutliple separate backup files. I.e. The single file that is created will have your addon backups in it.

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Have you checked the UI? My local add-ons are included in the “Select what to restore” list, so they’re there somewhere… :grin:

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This is about the /addons directory, which is the config for building custom addons/apps.

@petro , yes it creates a single tar file – which includes a number of gzipped files. The issue is the /addons folder is no longer being backed up. That folder contains the config for the local addons and used to be part of the stanard backups (see my first post). @RedKing , see the image above where Addons were selected in the backup.

There’s more details in the github issue.

In my post above I didn’t show the full contents. Notice here that besides the individual local addons there’s the addons_local.tar.gz file:

$ tar -vtf 24f64650.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0       702418444 2025-06-12 03:00 homeassistant.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0            2465 2025-06-12 03:00 5c53de3b_esphome.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0           14389 2025-06-12 03:00 cebe7a76_hassio_google_drive_backup.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0           11859 2025-06-12 03:00 a0d7b954_ssh.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0            2674 2025-06-12 03:00 core_mosquitto.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0            5211 2025-06-12 03:00 03cabcc9_ring_mqtt.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0        21558070 2025-06-12 03:00 a0d7b954_zwavejs2mqtt.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0        36445587 2025-06-12 03:00 local_hello_world.tar.gz <= addon
-rw-r--r-- 0/0         3001301 2025-06-12 03:00 local_zwavejs2mqttlr.tar.gz <= addon
-rw-r--r-- 0/0             229 2025-06-12 03:01 ssl.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0         1498345 2025-06-12 03:01 share.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 0/0           25650 2025-06-12 03:01 addons_local.tar.gz <= the /addons directory
-rw-r--r-- 0/0            1429 2025-06-12 03:01 ./backup.json

I moved my custom addon onto another machine, and using a different approach to bring that addon’s data into HAOS to be included in my scheduled backups.

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hmm, I wished this had ended up in a github issue or so. I found out the hard way that local addon source is not backed up, config is backed up, as well as the container. I’m able to restore and run the addon but the addons folder itself is empty after a full restore.

One ‘backup’ option is to host your addons/apps on github, then at least they are stored in a separate location.

I’ll create an issue on github.

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