HA broke after the last update, and now the image (vmware) only boots in rescue mode. I hope to copy the last backup tar file from the broken image to my host (windows) so I can restore it to a new image, but the rescue mode doesn’t appear to have a working ip address, so I can’t scp the backup. Is there a way to get an ip address working in rescue mode?
EDIT: never mind - looks like I would have to know the encryption key to use the backup file anyway (I lost it long ago…)
Hi Patrick, let this experience be a (hard) lesson to offload your backups.
Is config folder in VMware encrypted?
Just copy that. Not sure why people make such big deal of getting backups.
If you can access config folder that is more than enough to restore. Backup make offload to another location easier but overall it is much more cumbersome in my opinion
You can mount your virtual drive in another vm, and copy over the contents of the /config folder
(don’t forget to copy the the hidden files and folders)
thanks, francisp, that was the solution - loaded a full debian vm, added the 2 homeassistant vmdk’s (bad and good), mounted them, then copied.
EDIT: once I realized that the debian vm had access to my host, I just copied the last full backup from the bad ha image to my host, created a new ha, and restored from the backup tar file (I thought it would require an encryption key, but it didn’t).