Unable to restore from backup (2025.1)

Hello,

I screwed up a fix to an automation and I want to restore my latest backup. I am using the builtin backup introduced in 2025.1.0.

When I attempt to restore, I select “settings and history”. When I select restore, I receive an error message:

Restore database must match backup

Also cannot open homeassistant.tar.gz from the downloaded backup file.

Anyone know what this means and how to resolve the issue?

I’m getting the same error when trying to restore settings and history.

  • Core 2025.1.2
  • Supervisor 2024.12.3
  • Operating System 14.1
  • Frontend 20250109.0
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Exactly the same here.

  • Core 2025.1.2
  • Supervisor 2024.12.3
  • Operating System 14.1
  • Frontend 20250109.0

Just runned into the same while trying to restore part “settings” from full backup made an hour ago. as i accidently deleted local tuya setup…
for instance “local addons” restoring works fine, but this did no good

  • Core 2025.1.1
  • Supervisor 2024.12.3
  • Operating System 14.1
  • Interfejs użytkownika 20250106.0

Also getting the same restore error. I tried to restore last night’s back using Settings/Backups/My Backups/Manual Backups and checked “Home Assistant” and “Settings and History (2025.1.2)”. (FYI, a script was lost when Home Assistant saved it and completely lost; this is a separate error from this restore problem and is what cause me to need to restore.)

From Settings/About:

  • Core 2025.1.2
  • Supervisor 2024.12.3
  • Operating System 14.1
  • Frontend 20250109.0

From Settings/System/Logs:
Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/connection.py:315
integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 6:37:44 PM (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 6:38:01 PM

[545102038784] Error handling message: Restore database must match backup (home_assistant_error) user from router_ip (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36)