Hello to all,
I know that many of you will not consider the following an issue but it’s something that bothers me so i figured i would ask. In general, i am a person that i like to keep my drives very tidy regardless the device and the same applies to Home Assistant. I run home assistant from November 2020 in a virtual machine. Around December 2021 my Virtual machines backups were more than 8GB and the HA instance was unstable. It was then, that i decided to delete my VM and start from scratch.
With a clean install and all devices / addons / community addons / automations / scenes etc my starting VM back-up file was about 3.5GB. Now i see this increasing again as newer versions of HA come up.
In general, i keep back-ups regularly and this is what i see:
As displayed in the picture, the size of the backup is increasing version to version. I started then looking at the forums and everybody speaks about the db size. Well, my db size is just a few mb at it’s worst because i have set up an automation to purge the recorder and re-pack the database every night. In the same automation i am also clearing the log so my db is kept very small.
From December 2021 until today, i haven’t added any new device in my home so i don’t have more entities than i used to, and i haven’t added new addons. In fact i have very little. Please see below:
and this is my Community addons:
Just to show you the db size please check the below screenshot:
I don’t have any media uploaded to Home Assistant and i cannot really find where the size increase is coming from. Is it possible that this is normal and each update is adding that much code to increase the size?
Are there any other common places to look for big files or even better, is there any addon that scans through the files and displays them with filesize so i can understand what is going on?
Thanks very much
Kind Regards
M