My basic question is, is it possible to recover an existing (Backed up) instance of Home assistant when creating a new install of Home Assistant on Ubuntu / Docker?
A bit of background to my situation. I have been happily running HA on a mini PC for some time now. Within my HA, I run Frigate. But wanted to be able to store all recordings from Frigate to a separate SDD. However, I quickly learned thta this was not possible.
I then (foolishly) asked Chat GPT to help me configure this so that I could. It’s suggestion was to Partition the internal SDD of the PC, and assign one partition to an install of Ubuntu which would run Frigate. (Made sense to me). But, after successfully installing the partion and Ubuntu, I can no longer access my HA. The reason for this seems to be because I changed the Boot option. So, whilst I can see the HA data is there. It has no way of booting.
Chat GPT assures me it can recover the Boot instance and get me back to where I started…I hope it’s right!
But, it has also suggested that in order to achieve what I want, I should Install a fresh installation of HA on top of Ubuntu (I think this is done in Docker?). and then also run Frigate in Docker too.
So, my question is if I do a fresh install using ubuntu & Docker, will I be able to recover my current configuration etc via a recovery option? Or would I have to start again?
Thanks in advance