Migrating to a fresh install, how do I keep esphome and helpers

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I had to reinstall mqtt and now I have to restart the add on everyday or nothing connects. I think it didn’t completely Uninstall. Also I can’t make a username with my old mqtt login so I’m stuck in administrative mqtt or change the login on all my devices.

If I start a fresh install, how do I migrate my helpers and esphome devices? Tasmota devices should be auto found and bluetooth is the same way now. I still have my bluetooth on esphome. NodeRed is really easy to save the flows. Other than manually copying most of my configuration everything should go easy. Are automations still in configuration or did they migrate like helpers?

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Hi,

Just use the backup facility. It does it all for you.

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Thanks, I didn’t realize how much better backup service has gotten. Where would my configuration files be backed up? Is it under one of the folders?

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Unless you’ve moved stuff everything is in the /config directory.

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After a fresh install i used backups to get esphome and nodered back. Which partial backup do I need for helpers?

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Also, the config folder isn’t available for backup is that normal? I could just copy and paste?

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So, the helpers are under the main home assistant backup, I tried it but had the same old problems. Is there a way I can input helpers? I have to manual install most my integrations and hacs but, the helpers will take me forever… I have over a hundred.

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What is your install method? If you are using HASSOS then the full backup is literally that. You can go from one machine to another with it.

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Yes, Hassio recommended install on a VM. My problem is something is wrong with my original install. Mqtt doesn’t connect as it should, I can’t make a new user even though the name doesn’t exist. No matter how many times I reinstall mqtt I can’t fix it. Also has a few other problems. It is updated from Like 2018.
A fresh install I just installed runs much smoother but, I need to migrate helpers and such.

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So, they seem to be stored under the .storage hidden folder but, it’s more of an ID and can’t be copied. It gives me a good list to manual add them back though.
Can anything be copied over from .storage folder? Would be nice to not rebuild my lovelace.

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Did you ever solve this problem?