Migrate from HA supervised to HA Container | what is the best migration strategy?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi all,

To make better use of my NUC I want to switch from the official HA supervised version to HA container. I was wondering what is the best strategy to do this migration. Is it possible to do a (partial) backup and then restore this in the HA Container version? Or do I need to start from scratch and will it only be possible to restore the yaml-files with configuration and maybe the dashboards?

Thanx!

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The backup contains the HA config folder. You can extract that somewhere sensible and then point HA container at it. That won’t work for other software (the add-ons) though.

I’d suggest you start with a structure like:

/docker
/docker/homeassistant

Then you can create your docker-compose.yml file in /docker, and map the config folder to /docker/homeassistant. This makes it trivial to back up your Docker config and HA. By using the same approach for other software you can simply back up /docker and get everything.

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - /docker/homeassistant:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
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