Use a compression and encryption for backup files that can be opened with standard tools

Feature Requests
1

I configured backup with OneDrive and locally on my HA Raspi. I spent some time finding out that with the “normal” Windows tools (e.g., WinRAR, 7zip), I cannot decompress the tar.gz files, and that there is something “uncommon” with the file format that HA uses, which causes errors in these tools.

This is very inconvenient, as I would like to open certain files and look at them. I understood that I can decompress them by downloading them locally to HA, but I experienced that HA can easily be bricked to uselessness, e.g., by crashed updates.

So, I would like to ask for the feature: Use a compression that can be opened with standard tools.

2

7-zip should be able to extract the tar.gz. Recent widows versions also support the tar command.

Note that files uploaded to cloud services have password protection enabled (for good reason). Could this be why you were not able to extract the files?

3

Enable encryption for Onedrive, but disable encryption for the local backup. Then you can open the local backup with 7zip.

4

Yes. I understood the concept of passwords or encryption codes. 7zip for example throws an error even before it opens the file and says: that’s not an archive. So there is a problem with the file format, even before I get asked for the password.

5

Because in all their wisdom, the devs choose not to use a standard encryption method for the backups, so 7zip can’t open them. 7zip can only open unencrypted backups.

6

There’s a community built tool to decrypt the files, but I agree it is not very convenient that it is needed:

7

Closing as a duplicate. Use more common way to encrypt backups