Need help. location of backup files on the Hassos sd card

[Diligence (Peter)]

Does anyone know the location or directory that HA creates the backups in. I have put the sd card in my pc but there does not seem to be a backup folder. Nr can I find a .tar file anywhere on the card.

[tom_l]

Assuming your PC OS is Windows, you will need DiskInternals Linux Reader (free) to see the Linux partitions.

[Diligence (Peter)]

Hi Tom. Thanks ill give it a go. So am I right that the backup folder will be hidden?

[Diligence (Peter)]

@tom_l

DiskInternals Linux Reader

Hi Just run the Linux reader and no backup files are there. The only two folders are System volume and Overlays.

[tom_l]

How to access the Backup Files via SD Card

For those finding this again on Google, the solution was: Using DiskInternals Linux Reader to access the Linux partitions on a Windows machine. I found a partition with the directory (I know this looks odd, but directly copied from DiskInternals software) “/var/log/journal\supervisor\backup”. It has a lot of tar files that appear to match the “slug” values I saw in the HomeAssistant CLI, so I’m sure these are the backups I made. I can confirm that inside one of the large tar files I found are …

[akaru96 (Ricardo Lang)]

I hade the issue that my system was crashed and i wasnt able to restore the Backup from the sd card by the RaspberryPi.

My solution was to boot Ubuntu from a USB and there i was able to read the SD card from the Home Assistant. With the search i was able to find a Backup folder where was all Backups.

[Diligence (Peter)]

Thanks for the response.
I just started again and learned from my mistakes. Also I switched hardware to an old laptop I had sitting around. I used the Ubuntu boot you described and installed HA on it. It took about 15 minutes. It is more stable that the Pi. So all is well now.