Wait for hassio.backup

[ianadd (ian)]

How can I detect when a backup completes?

  backup:
    sequence:
    - service: hassio.backup_full
      data_template:
        name: Full Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}

I want to know it has completed before the next step. Is it possible to know ?

[philb (Philip Bowers)]

Configuration tab
  Add-ons, Backups & Supervisor
    Backups

[philb (Philip Bowers)]

Here’s a copy of my automation for weekly backups.

  alias: HASSIO Weekly Snapshot
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: 03:00:00
  condition:
    condition: time
    weekday:
    - sun
  action:
  - service: hassio.backup_full
    data:
      name: Full Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}

[ianadd (ian)]

@philb My automation is virtually identical. That is not my issue.

I want to know when the backup completes.

Eg to be able to report how long it took, or to copy the backup file to another location…

[philb (Philip Bowers)]

That was my second post. Refer to my first post about where to find the HA backups.

Configurations

Add-ons, Backups, Supervisor

Backup (Different on phone than PC but, the option that says backup or looks like the icon here.)

[ianadd (ian)]

Perhaps this will make it clearer.

I want the first script call to wait until the backup completes before returning and allowing the next step.

It does not, it just initiates the backup and exits.

[philb (Philip Bowers)]

It’s not the “wait for a triggered event solution” but, there is always the delay.

backup:
  sequence:
    - service: script.do_full_backup
    - delay: "00:10:00"
    - service: script.copy_backup_to_dropbox
    - service: notify.pushover
      data:
        title: 0z HA-250G
        message: HA Clone back-up done
    mode: single

Edit:
Apparently, this has been a request sense 2018. Trigger a event when snapshot creation is finished

Here is a 2020 request. Feature Request: Snapshot complete event

But I was not able to find it on the official Feature Requests sight.

[ianadd (ian)]

That has been my inelegant solution to date.

There must be a way to know a hassio service has finished.

[ianadd (ian)]

@philb thanks for that bit of research. I have created a feature request.

[3v1n0 (Marco Trevisan)]

In theory hassio suports this now Notify HA Core when backup is being executed by agners · Pull Request #3305 · home-assistant/supervisor · GitHub

Not sure if it has been implemented on the core-side though.

EDIT: not really, this is valid only for backups that include home-assistant only

[mortee]

Has this been solved somehow? I have the exact same issue, trying to do further processing when a HA backup is done and finished - but since the service call doesn’t wait for it to actually finish, I’m stuck.

[jack5mikemotown]

Not a fix, but a workaround for anyone who runns across this thread in the future, the Google Drive Add-On exposes sensor.backup_state, which has the attributes last_backup and last_uploaded