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Always have a backup ready, go check now (feddit.uk)
submitted 6 months ago by Lifebandit666@feddit.uk to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I thought I had a backup. I use the Gdrive add-on and it should have had a backup.

I didn't have a backup.

Turns out when I moved from a Pi to Proxmox I didn't set Gdrive add-on up properly, so it wasn't making backups every 3 days like it always has.

Then I killed Proxmox. No idea what I did to kill it, I just tried to make my NAS VM have 4gb ram all the time instead of Ballooning from 1gb, and it never booted again.

So I had to start fresh. But while I've only been playing with VMs for a couple months my HA instance has been a work of love since Lockdowns and COVID times.

And now I'm starting again.

Now go and check your backup solution.

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Just out of curiosity, I presume a full backup (inside HA, not of the VM itself) can be restored to a completely new HA VM and everything returns? Addons? Integrations? HACS?

Edit: and history?

Or... not?

[–] CondorWonder@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, based on my migration from a Raspberry Pi to a mini x86 pc. A full backup contains a complete snapshot of that moment and all your configuration, history, and all add-ons and their data. I think HACS came across too, though I can easily be misremembering.

The restore looked like it tried to do everything but my large database add on (PostgreSQL) gave it grief so I ended up restoring components separately. The backups did work overall though, and after a few reboots everything worked.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Nice to know, thanks