I currently run backups using ssh to invoke “ha backup new”, then fetching the results with scp. The resulting filename for any given backup looks something like “2c072656.tar”, and its content is:
$ tar -tvf backup/2c072656.tar
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 377960110 2025-02-09 09:51 homeassistant.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 10350 2025-02-09 09:53 core_ssh.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 1949 2025-02-09 09:53 core_configurator.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 225855837 2025-02-09 09:53 a0d7b954_unifi.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 6445 2025-02-09 09:54 a0d7b954_ssh.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 229 2025-02-09 09:54 share.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 236 2025-02-09 09:54 addons_local.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 227 2025-02-09 09:54 ssl.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 229 2025-02-09 09:54 media.tar.gz
-rw-r–r-- 0/0 858 2025-02-09 09:54 ./backup.json
I see that the latest HA release is enabling encryption. If I never set up automatic backups via HA, will I ever need to worry about my manual backups “suddenly” being encrypted? Can I just carry on as I do now? (My backup script (which does the ssh/scp) runs from cron currently.)