I guess our job now it to make enough noise in the comments section on those channels to get some recognition.
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Currently looking at a rotating circle for 2 hours with a backup of 6gb. No clue how it is going. A status bar would be very welcome add my current stress rate. 
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I feel your pain ! I had to do a restore myself this week due to a faulty release of Node-Red. Set it going and used the Load Monitor of my Linux HA Server to try and guess if it was actually doing anything. Not ideal !!
Beyond a progress indicator do we know WHY it takes so long to restore?
I’m currently trying to move from a raspberry Pi to Proxmox on a NUC and run a test restore…
So far 2h50 in and nothing, if I look on proxmox the VM is doing pretty much squat of any sorts.
I’m wondering if it is the size of the home-assistant_v2.db file ? Mine used to be quite small, now it can hit 5Gb in just a couple of days (that’s another problem for another day) but 5Gb of anything is going to take a while to wade through? I might be wrong but it seems a decent theory !
Linking to my post:
I’ve only done one restore and one backup, so fwiw:
Restoring a 6.5MB backup to a new HA image on an RPi4, watching the chasing circle for ~45mins, I finally tried hitting refresh [F5] after reading that thread, and the page updated to the expected configuration.
It appears the chasing circle page didn’t update when done? So maybe it’s not “progress” we’re not seeing, but the page simply not updating?
Thanks to the community for their help for this newbie.
Or even just output of the processes…
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This is desperately needed! I’m currently restoring a backup to a new system, but the never ending circle tells me nothing. When I refreshed the webpage it prompted me to restore again. Totally unhelpful!
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i’ve waited for over 15 hours and nothing, it told me big backups could take up to 45 minutes but after reading this was bull and it could take 3 hours i decided to let it run over night, but after 15 hours i decided to give up. i restored backups before and those worked perfectly.
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6gb wow mine was 2 and it just wouldn’t do anything
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I would really like this feature.
I’m using relatively beefy Proxmox instance with 4 cores of a 3900x, 8GB allocated RAM for the VM, and all is on an NVME SSD drive. The backup is only have a 50MB backup.
So I expect it to be quick.
However now I don’t know if this is a quirk of the particular way these backups are done that it is taking half an hour already, or that I have made an error somehow (e.g. assuming that I can use the backup from a previous docker container setup for a HAOS VM).
Or perhaps something else is going awry, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot this process.
And include a VM or Hass process reboot after the restore.
Or at least a button / notification to do so.
I noticed not all addons work without having done a reboot of the system.
Could be only a Hass process reboot would do the job without a whole system reboot.
@nick4275 Can you add this to the 1st post?
Or do you think it needs a separate topic?
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Significant improvements to backup & restore functionality are coming in the 2024.2 release.
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The release is coming today. I’m curious to hear from anyone, once they installed all updates (core + supervisor), if their experience was better.
Had a quick look and can’t see anything mention in the notes for the release - what’s new?
I’ve since switched to a mini pc and proxmox so I can do snapshots and backups on top of the HA built in backups and it’s very much more reassuring (a few seconds to jump back) to be honest.
I’m comfortable of having different levels of backups (after all I restored my PI4 config to the new miniPC and it worked well) but the original request is valid - some sort of log or indication of how it’s going would be super welcome.
Majority of the changes happened in the frontend or supervisor but there were some in core too. These aren’t mentioned for some reason in the release notes.
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Edit - read the posts before mine, going to wait and see if this was addressed.
Voted. No improvement for me – this is the first time i’ve had to restore (i was on the latest 2.3 i think it was) and there is NO indicator if the backup is ongoing or not, if it’s done, what’s going on. I’m just sitting here wasting my time staring at a screen.
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Can confirm. Just bought a Pi 5 and did a 3.5GB restore in maybe 10-15 minutes (amazing!) but did not receive any indication that the backup was completed.
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Progress indicator, or better, some form of basic log output so we know it’s doing something and not stalled.