I think that changed in 0.99: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/09/18/release-99/#hassio
Ok interesting. But then I think it should actually work out of the box without changes in the add-on itself. Iāll check that out later.
I just tested it and it is working out of the box. Awesome, I did not know that!
If you get āinvalid yaml syntaxā, you probably have to enclose it in quotation marks:
username: '!secret your_user'
password: '!secret your_pass'
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Not sure if you are aware but this is a good RSS feed to subscribe to: https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/
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Hello, newbie having trouble setting this up correctlyā¦
everything in log good untilā¦
[21:50:27] FATAL: The provided host is unreachable. Please check your config.
[cmd] /run.sh exited 1
[cont-finish.d] executing container finish scriptsā¦
[cont-finish.d] done.
[s6-finish] waiting for services.
[s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.
This is my config:
host: 'homeasistant.local:8123'
share: backup
target_dir: HomeAssistant
username: xxxxx
password: 'xxxxxxx'
keep_local: '5'
keep_remote: '20'
trigger_time: '22:00'
trigger_days:
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
exclude_addons: []
exclude_folders: []
Any help pleaseā¦
You need to specify the IP address of your NAS in the host field, not home assistant.
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Samba Backup seems to be filling the supervisor log with a large number of warnings:
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_nodered not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_thelounge not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_foldingathome not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_aircast not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_unifi not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_airsonos not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_mqtt not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on core_almond not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_matrix not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on f3248fb7_rtl4332mqtt not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on 15ef4d2f_esphome-dev not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on 243ffc37_ympd not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on core_tellstick not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_ftp not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on 243ffc37_icantbelieveitsnotvaletudo not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on core_configurator not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_chrony not found/installed
...etc
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on core_check_config not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_tautulli not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_phlex not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_appdaemon not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Add-on a0d7b954_zerotier not found/installed
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.snapshots] Snapshotting fd08f1da store Add-ons
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Building snapshot for add-on a0d7b954_glances
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Finish snapshot for addon a0d7b954_glances
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Building snapshot for add-on core_duckdns
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Finish snapshot for addon core_duckdns
20-11-02 15:16:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Building snapshot for add-on core_mariadb
20-11-02 15:17:09 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Finish snapshot for addon core_mariadb
...etc
Yes youāre right. The supervisor API slightly changed which now requires a small adaption in this add-on. I will fix that in v4.2.
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Thanks! Iāll go try that now!
Tom, question about your implementation of access to a Samba share. The āSamba Shareā add-on allows sharing local drive resources from HaaOS and mounting it on another device (like my Synology NAS) yet I have not found an add-on that would allow me to mount a Synology share on HassOS (which would be useful for things like access to media, storing video or snapshots from IP cameras, etc. without tying up RPi storage). However, your add-on is clearly doing what I need - accessing a share from my NAS. How are you doing that? Is it something that could be used in another add-on or manually to mount a NAS share on HaaOS?
I suspect the answer is that this works for your backup add-on because you just need the remote share mounted long enough to write a snapshot and yet it isnāt a mount that would persist across reboots, etc. but just thought I would ask.
It worked perfectly! BTW, thanks a ton for this add-onā¦ it works great!
Happy to hear that 
Mounting a remote share inside a docker container is not directly possible. Docker is preventing you from doing this for security reasons. It would only work in āprivilegedā mode.
Iām not mounting the share at all. Instead I use smbclient - a command line tool which uses the SMB protocol to communicate with the share.
Works like a charm.
Thanks alot.
Now I can sleep much better, knowing I no longer have to manage my backups manually.
btw:
does it make sense to exclude the backup-folder to keep the backup small(er)?
exclude_folders:
- backup
Works like a charme, iām uploading on my OpenMediaVault nas. Thans a lot for this very appreciated plugin!
Hi @thomasmauerer thanks for your work !
due security reasons the ping on my NAS is forbidden, I try your addon but it doesnāt work because the first step (ping) failsā¦but Iāve access to my NAS in SMB (testing in Windows environnement).
how to āpassā the first test ? test the SMB port ?
Just saying thanks, works perfect to my Synology!
Itās indeed a showstopper if ping is not allowed. But testing the smb ports is not really a good alternative. If somebody is not using the default ports, itās the exact same story.
Maybe you could just whitelist the IP address of your Home Assistant device.
Hi @thomasmauerer, Thank you for this great add-on! I stumbled upon it last week and installed it yesterday; works wonderful! Really a good addition to my system.
I have one question, when I look at the share on my Synology NAS, I see beside the Directory with the snapshots:
/hass-bu/snapshots-222/<slug>.tar
an other directory with name:
/hass-bu/snapshots-222/#recycle/snapshots-222/samba-tmp123
and <filename>_1 -- _8
(there are 9 files at the moment.)
All are empty files (0) for every attempt I made with the addon.
Can you explain me what the function is of these files and secondly, can I remove the files without introducing problems?
Kind regards, and thank you for this add-on! Bert