Moving HAOS to a different hardware platform

[tom_l]

@madbrain76

I’m not certain what you mean by “install method”,

See https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#compare-installation-methods

Are you trying to restore the individual tar files inside the main tar file?

Don’t do that. Use the overall tar file. Read this:

How to restore a backup

This guide has been updated to use the much easier method introduced in version 0.116, if you are running an older version of Home Assistant than this you can check the edit history of this post for the old instructions. Note: this guide assumes you have copied the backup off your home assistant server before the problem occurred. So backup regularly and copy the backup eleswhere regularly. There are addons to do this automatically for you, see the list here: https://www.home-assistant.io/comm…