Samba Backup: Create and store backups on a Samba share

Vahaldor · January 17, 2022, 8:08am

ok, the error (without proper description) popped only once.

However, anybody dealt with the fact that defining the name automatically adds a prefix “Samba_Backup” Unnecessary but probably hardcoded.

trascu · January 18, 2022, 10:07pm

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thomasmauerer/hassio-addons/blob/d0e2c06560b29f9e9add501033efca8e5aafef6c/samba-backup/DOCS.md#option-backup_name

# Home Assistant Add-on: Samba Backup

Create backups and store them on a Samba share.

## Configuration Options

### Option: `host`

The hostname/URL of the Samba share.

### Option: `share`

The name of the Samba share.

### Option: `target_dir`

The target directory on the Samba share in which the backups will be stored. If not specified the backups will be stored in the root directory.

**Note**: _The directory must exist and write permissions must be granted._

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Vahaldor · January 20, 2022, 8:41am

I went through the documentation of course but look, the backup in HA has the name I required but uploaded has a prefix “Samba_Backup_”

Em I missing some configuration? I cannot find it, it seems to me to be hardcoded

Tamsy · January 20, 2022, 9:31am

… is indeed hardcoded. You can not remove that prefix without tampering with the codebase.

thomasmauerer · January 20, 2022, 10:28am

Yes and there is a reason for that.
The prefix acts as a search pattern for the cleanup and guarantees that only backups are deleted and not accidently other files that may be laying around in the same directory on your share.

woutercoppens · January 21, 2022, 9:35pm

Is it possible to store the username and password for the Samba share in secrets.yaml?

Senbei · January 30, 2022, 7:57pm

Hi,

danke für das Addon - funktioniert wunderbar.

Ich habe das Ganze mit Automationen in Node-RED gelöst - mit einer Prüfung, ob der Server überhaupt verfügbar ist.
Ich werde dazu noch ein Video machen.

/update
Ach so… der “Server” ist mein normaler Rechner, der nur ein paar Stunden am Tag an - aber immer unterschiedlich…

Gruß,
Tristan

And for the english speaker: Works like a charm!

Senbei · January 30, 2022, 8:00pm

Why not simply call the service manually - then it will create it in the smb share as well.
I only have an automation in Node-RED.

Senbei · January 30, 2022, 8:01pm

Oh… nice information, can you give me some more about this? If the addon owner doesn’t do something, we can create perhaps an automation to make it happend upfront?

poudenes · January 30, 2022, 8:07pm

some posts after mine someone told me that MariaDB have a lock feature now when its backup. So the stop function is not needed anymore…

Senbei · January 30, 2022, 8:17pm

Nice to hear. Do you have any source information about this? I didn’t find anything in the web - only that they complain about the fact, that is doesn’t work

mat44150 · February 3, 2022, 5:10pm

I have been using this addon for a few days and it works great! However, it does not sync the backup that are created outside of this add-on, for instance the default backups before an update. Is there a way to add this feature, or am I missing a config option ?
Thanks!

Senbei · February 3, 2022, 8:25pm

I guess you have to use the same name pattern for the default backups. They have to start with Samba_Backup_

mat44150 · February 4, 2022, 4:07pm

Unfortunately, we can’t control the name pattern of the default backups. Home Assistant assign one by default, such as ‘core_2022.2.0’ or ‘addon_xxxx_yyyy’ or even ‘os_6.6’.

Senbei · February 5, 2022, 12:25am

So, here it comes. The german video including node red automation for Backups on not 24/7 available samba shares.
Lokale Backups auf dem NAS oder PC mit Samba Backup

sender · February 16, 2022, 3:05pm

Hi, seeking some help here. Since December 2021 I have had no successful backup. My backup seems to take longer than 3 hours and that crashes something causing to have local backup but not on samba.

I have excluded addons, but the ones I really need I let in. I deleted the homea sssitant database.

Where and how can I see how many storage an addon is using? e.g. influxdb?

I have glances, but that doesn’t show me:

DrLEEi · February 17, 2022, 11:17am

Nice work solved a problem! Thank!
My suggestion would be to improve error handling.
The remote store could not be reached while performing a scheduled task, so the job failed.
No alerts or warnings were received about the incident, although this would be important for you to investigate the issue. - I accidentally noticed.

e-raser · February 21, 2022, 5:42pm

e-raser:

@thomasmauerer have you thought about providing an additional whitelist approach by offering two options include_addons and include_folders?

During this Correct “wait until finished” syntax (e. g. ‘wait_for_trigger’) - #5 by e-raser question:

Is it possible to manually trigger Samba Backup addon so it creates only a HA backup?

…I was wondering why there´s no such “feature” yet. Currently it’s quite a pain to have SAMBA backup create a partial backup only containing HA + HA config folder because I need to exclude everything else. So I need to maintain a list of things I don’t want (and that list is constantly changing which adds the need to update my exclusion list also) to get what I want. Strange, isn’t it

Curious to see if this is something you thought about or what you think of it.

@thomasmauerer Opinion on this after 3 months?

Maybe at least allow a wildcard for the exclude_addons parameter, that’d be a big step forward already. As you see: there are ideas…

mikeyno · February 25, 2022, 8:41pm

Does this samba backup addon also backup node red flows?

carsten_h · February 26, 2022, 10:49am

This addon uses the normal Home Assistant OS function to backup the system. If the flows are insides these backups, everything is fine.