Restoring is insane

Installation
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I'm on day 4 of trying to restore a full backup to a new Raspberry Pi 5. At first I tried to do the whole file and that ran for over two days with no success. Now I'm trying just to restore Home Assistant, then I'll restore my add-ons. I'm now on day 2 of it just restoring home assistant and it's still going and going and going. It's crazy how long it takes. the file is 1.8gb.

2

I've restored my HA a couple of times from scratch (Filesize around 14GB) and it only takes minutes.

I am using an old laptop to run HA in a VM under Virtualbox at the moment.

So - while I have no experience with Pi5 - I don't think it should be taking this long.

If this is normal however, I would get rid of that Rhaspberry in a heartbeat :rofl:

3

How old are that backup ?, it was not from an old pi4 32bits ? ( Beside if you never verified the backup, you can't tell if it should work, but that's another story )
Last but Not Least ... LOGS ! ... don't just stare at the piece

4

My installation was about the same size when I migrated it to a new hardware and the whole process took under an hour to get it up and running normally.

5

Hi,
As the filesize seems modest, how far apart are the source and destination HA versions?

If they are too far apart, the different database schema can screw things up.

  • Try installing the same version as the backup was created on.
  • Try expanding the backup file (it is just a TAR file).

With the right hardware a RPi5 works fine, but the economics of RAM and storage for new hardware are pricing them out in favour of SFF x86 boxes.

If this helps, :heart: this post!

6

My backup is from an instance on virtualbox that was backed up five days ago and HA was up-to-date.

My process was:

  1. Buy a new Pi5 w/ an SSD
  2. Download the PI imager. Not sure how old the HA image is on that though.
  3. Install home assistant onto the SSD via imager software.
  4. Upload my back up to Home Assistant
  5. Restore the system first (took two days)
  6. Restore add-ons (currently on day 2, still restoring)
7

Sadly, telling us general information isn't useful for the community to help - especially as it hasn't worked for you.

Details like version numbers (and db schemas) matter.

  • Get another SD card
  • Install the default RPi full desktop
  • Test it.
    • Prove the hardware.
  • Try opening the backup file
    • Rename the end .tar.gz
    • It should open as a load of files, including backups of components like add-ons.
  • If it doesn't open as an archive, it could be encrypted (something that caused the community to kick back VERY HARD for exactly this problem)
    Your restore started but is taking time, which implies you got past encryption.