Soo, someone was backing up their @homeassistant on its own local disk, instead of something outside the VM which runs HA 🤦♂️
#homelab fails
This reminds me, I use the internal ha backup (to a network drive). But I’m using Linux kvm, so I could be doing snapshots instead, which in theory are easier to restore.
@limelight79 I would still advise doing an alternate method(along with snapshot) of copy i.e tarred config directory as done by HA. I am not sure what happened(error message indicated disk corruption)but I couldn’t recover from the vm snapshots I had.
Do both, you’re saying? Maybe keep the daily backup and then do a weekly snapshot, something like that.
@limelight79 I am saying two different methods of backup i.e one at file system level… which the home assistant provides (to a cloud or local object storage) and one at block level (which I think where the snapshots you were referring to come into play)
Pro tip: use symlinks instead of copying files, the backup is near instant!
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I prefer reflinks.
Was it me? I was also doing that until very recently.
Thanks for the reminder, I’ve subscribed to their cloud service since day 1. Time to actually use that backup feature.
Happened to me as well! Backed up to some local folder in /mnt because the NAS share wasn’t mounted properly. Fortunately noticed before anything bad happened.
@root @homeassistant It me. I don’t see the issue.
I’m not even backing up.
Zero chance of backups failing if you don’t have any.
I back mine up to my own local disk, but about once every three months or so, I pull a copy from the disk onto my phone. That way I have another copy of it that’s not on the local disk.
My setup doesn’t change that much in that amount of time, so I’m not particularly worried about losing a bunch of data.
@shortwavesurfer This is a good strategy until I remember to do it diligently 😅.
The first step I did with my new install is to ensure that the cloud backup works(self hosted coming soon)
The reason I do it that way is because I have my password manager in KeePass and do the database backups in the same way. So when I’m doing one of them, I do the other at the same time, just for consistency’s sake.
