My HA was stuck in a boot loop. First thing I tried was to re-image the SD card. No worries I thought because all my data is safe on the hassos-data partition on my SSD.
I suppose my data is still there. But HA does not mount it. And all instructions I find are going to overwrite the data on the partition.
Wouldn’t/shouldn’t HA just mount an existing data partition? How do I get my setup back?
PS: This is kind of a rhetorical question. I CAN recover my data. And I’m currently doing it.
But the user experience is far from logical or useful.
The most straight forward thing to do was to rename the hassos-data partition file system label on the SD card partition to make it non-ambiguous which one is to mount. That seemed to have worked.
I just updated 32bit rpi3 b to 64 bit, tried a bunch of relabels to use existing SSD however it always crashed. Finally gave up and just installed the latest 64 bit image, during the recovery period it notified me that there were two disks labelled with hassos-data and asked me to pick which one I wanted.
Turned out it I didn’t have to worry about loosing the media files on the ssd as it allowed me to reuse the existing system on the ssd. This did mean that I had to upgrade from the SSD to the latest versions manually.