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Soo, someone was backing up their on its own local disk, instead of something outside the VM which runs HA 🤦‍♂️ (mastodon.raviteja.computer)
submitted 3 weeks ago by root@mastodon.raviteja.computer to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Soo, someone was backing up their @homeassistant on its own local disk, instead of something outside the VM which runs HA 🤦‍♂️

#homelab fails

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] root@mastodon.raviteja.computer 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do both, you're saying? Maybe keep the daily backup and then do a weekly snapshot, something like that.

[–] root@mastodon.raviteja.computer 1 points 2 weeks ago

@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)