Proton Drive as a backup location

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Amazing to see the progress that Home Assistant has made with backups, nice to see the first integrations adding their backup locations.

I would love to be able to store my Home Assistant backups in Proton Drive. I think their API is very limited (most people integrate with it via rsync) and am wondering about 2 things:

  • Is it possible to provide this at the quality level required for an official integration? If so, how? If not, is an add-on feasible?
  • Is there enough demand for this to be worth implementing?

Please vote if you’d like to see a Proton Drive backup location and comment if you have ideas about the implementation! Thank you for reading!

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Hi

You’re asking for something that more or less already exists :wink: GitHub - jcwillox/hassio-rclone-backup: Home Assistant addon to automatically sync backups to remote locations using Rclone will make the work without problem, I use it since ages with a Nextcloud storage and it works great !

Vincèn

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That’s a great solution for now, thank you for sharing!
My intention here was primarily for an integration that would use the new backup system, as explained in this month’s newsletter:

Google Drive, OneDrive and Synology DSM have been added. Is there interest to do the same for Proton Drive?

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Why ?? you have already a backup system integrated in HA that works perfect and if you use it with Auto Backup GitHub - jcwillox/hass-auto-backup: 🗃️ Improved Backup Service for Home Assistant that can Automatically Remove Backups and Supports Generational Backup Schemes. it’s perfect :wink:

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I think they want the backup system to be extended to also have support for a privacy friendly cloud storage service.

I realize that backups are encrypted by default, but when using google drive or onedrive as the backend, they are able to see that their user is using Home Assistant, and at how many places. Personally I dont trust them even with this little metadata.

By the way, I think the extension of the backup system is already useful, but I think this would be a great addition. Maybe also support for using an SMB share, as thats more universal than a synology location for backups stored on the local network.

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