What happened to backups - Failed to start restore

Installation Home Assistant OS
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So I had a power failure while I was away. When the power came back some of my Tuya devices weren’t recognized and my flic buttons with flicd didn’t work. When I got home I restarted my NUC host and now Tuya seems okay along with most everything else except flic buttons still don’t work and won’t pair and I am seeing some errors in the logs that don’t look familiar. So I figured I would restore from before the power outage. First I made a clean full backup. But when I click “Restore” I immediately get the error “Failed to start restore. Unknown error.” Long ago I installed and tested Google Backup add-on V 0.112.1. and that worked fine. Now when I need it, backups seem to have gone to shit. I’m running all the same versions that I originally got working back around November or December. The three that are posting as ready for updates are currently running the following.

Core: 2024.11.2
HAOS: 14.0
HACS: 2.0.1

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I used my ssh login to run the restore from the CLI and it seemed to work. You can also do this with the CLI via Terminal & SSH add-on WebUI

$ ssh homeassistant.local
$ ls -ltr /backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24811520 Feb 16 00:01 4405f224.tar
# choose the file name excluding the ".tar" that you want to restore e.g. 4405f224
$ ha backup restore 4405f224

I had to reestablish cloud connections for with Tuya which is the same as previous restore tests. The restore also fixed my Flic issues.

So I’ve had automatic backups running. I need to dust off my IT skills and do a test restore occasionally.