Restoring Home Assistant from backup

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Started a core update today and HA froze up. Now UI won’t start at all, just hangs on “loading data” then says “unable to connect to Home Assistant”. I can access the files on the HA server through my desktop, and if I connect a monitor to the HA server, I get this screen:

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I can access the HA files through my desktop, which is on the same network. Seems like the updater at least succeeded in making a backup before it crashed. How do I go about getting it to start / restoring from the backup from this situation?
Thank you

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OK, found out how to do a backup restore from the CLI of HA. Searched for and found the slug for the latest backup, then used the "back restore " command. Now it’s just hanging on “processing…” Great. What next? Try a different backup? fresh installation of HA and then restore from a backup? It was all going so well…should know to avoid updates whenever possible…

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Be patient. How big was the backup?

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You’re right, I’m being impatient. It now says complete and has gone back to the CLI with ha > prompt. How to I finish HA startup from here?

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Found it! I had to use the homeassistant.local:8123 URP rather than the ip that I was using to log in after backup restore. Thanks for the re-assuarnce @tom_l and it has also been useful talking to myself for my own comfort!

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Hey mate, I have a similar situation after an update, so how did you get in to restore?

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This is what I did:

Be patient. It can take a long time

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I guess there’s no way to restore a partial backup - which sucks. All I need to do is remove 2 lines from my configuration.yaml keeping me from accessing home assistant. Developer tools said it wouldn’t prevent me from restarting; didn’t say anything about freezing me out