When has my backup finished?

[ianadd (ian)]

I want to be able to know a backup has been completed.

Examples of why:

1. I use dropbox sync and want to start that once the hassio.backup_full completes instead of using a delay which may be too short or excessively long…
2. I want to do a backup and then shut HA down or reboot it.

How?

1. Maybe an extra parameter to the service call to say you want to wait until completion?
2. A sensor state change
   a) date/time of latest backup ?
   b) backup in progress yes/no ?

Somehow the installation of any HA upgrade, which these days recommends a backup, waits for the backup to complete.

Final thought, maybe it could be more generalised so that the call to the dropbox sync could be monitored for completon too.

service: hassio.addon_stdin
data_template:
  addon: 7be23ff5_dropbox_sync
  input:
    command: upload

[tom_l]

@ianadd

I use dropbox sync

This is not a core Home Assistant addon. The forum feature request category is for core Home Assistant integration / addons. The developer has indicated on their github repository that suggestions can be made here:

Hass.io Add-on: Upload hassio snapshots to Dropbox

UPDATE 2/19/18 - version 1.0.0 See the repository and README for full details, but some highlights: Uploads are triggered via service calls to hassio.addon_stdin, allowing for automations and scripting of Dropbox uploads. Uploads all .tar files in the backup directory to a specified output path, skipping files that have already been uploaded (No longer uploads entire directory). Start the add-on once and leave it on. It will listen for messages via service calls, as detailed in the README. No…

EDIT: @ianadd also there seems to be some evidence that this addon has been abandoned. You might be better off choosing a different automatic backup option. I use the SAMBA backup addon and this does have notifications of start/completion/error.