Service to remove backup

Feature Requests
1

Today, the backup integration offers only one service: create
That would be great to have a service remove as well, taking a date or number of days to keep as parameter
I’ve a backup from every Monday since January 2023, I don’t need that many.

EDIT: Something like this

alias: Backup hebdomadaire
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "01:00:00"
condition:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - mon
action:
  - service: backup.create
    data: {}
  - service: backup.remove
    data:
      days: 180
mode: single
2

Why?

I don’t want anything possibly deleting my last good backup. I prefer manual management of my backup files:

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3

The Samba Backup add-on allows you to specify how many backups you want to retain on the HA server.

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4

I’m using Core.

5

I’m talking about deleting everything that is older than 6 months for exemple.
And as my backup scheduling is in an automation, I don’t want to go in System > Backup and start clicking to keep a moving window of backups.
Every new weekly backup taken by the automation will remove the oldest weekly backup as well, that easy.
And I’m talking about a service. If you’re scared to remove a good backup, don’t call it :slight_smile:

6

I don’t know where you are but I definitly don’t have a checkbox in my setup

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7

Home Assistant 2023.9.2
Supervisor 2023.09.2
Operating System 10.5
Frontend 20230911.0 - latest

8

Yes! I have the same issue. I have an external script to copy these backups offsite, and from time to time I have to go grab a coffee and start clicking away to remove the backups from the UI.

Removing them from the disk doesn’t help as the entry remains in HA.

9

Try restarting HA.

10

the core backup system is different than the supervisor backup system.

Anyways, you can simply create a cron job that does that. Not at home at the moment but I have one that deletes after 2 weeks.

11

Agree, I’m also the king of the workarrounds.
But would be nice, as a service exists to create a backup, to have additional service(s) to manage (even restore) one.

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