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Home Assistant step-by-step tutorial

Regular backup of Google Drive Backup turns your Home Assistant into a nine-life monster – Home Assistant Step-by-Step Tutorial EP 11

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Just like computers and mobile phones, Home Assistant also needs to be backed up. Whether it is upgrading or replacing a device or recovering from a system crash, it is very convenient. Although there are backup options during system updates and add-on updates, through Google Drive Backup automatic backup allows you to more easily retrieve system backups at a certain time in the past, and you can restore them at any time. It is highly recommended to set this add-on as early as possible during the initial startup of the Home Assistant system!

Step 1. Add-on repositories

Because Google Drive Backup is not a native built-in Add-on of Home Assistant, you need to add a new repository to install it.

  1. "Settings" on the left
  2. Click "Add-ons"
設定 > 附加元件
  1. Click "Add-on Store" in the lower right corner
附加元件商店
  1. "... > Storage Mechanism" in the upper right corner (this translation is so strange😅)
  2. Paste the input box with "https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup.git"
  3. Click "Add"
新增 repository

Repository addition completed!

google drive backup repository 新增完成

Step 2. Install Google Drive Backup Add-on

  1. Click "Home Assistant Google Drive Backup"
    If you can't find it, just refresh the page and it should be there. If it still doesn't exist, go back to the previous step to confirm whether the repository has been added successfully.
Home Assistant Google Drive Backup
  1. Click "Install"
安裝 Google Drive Backup
  1. Turn on "Watchdog" (required), "Automatic update" (optional), "Show in sidebar" (optional)
  2. Click "Start"
啟動 Google Drive Backup

Step 3. Configure Google Drive Backup

  1. Click "Open WEB UI"
開啟 WEB UI
  1. Click "Setting"
  2. Adjust the settings. You can set them according to your needs, but there are several settings that are highly recommended:
    • Password: Enhance some security. You will need to enter a password to use it when you restore it in the future, so if someone gets your backup file in a bad way, you can't use it if you don't know the password.
    • Keep Generational Backups: This setting can be used to keep older versions of backup files. Here I set 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months, 1 year. You can also set it according to your needs.
設定 google drive backup
  1. Click "AUTHENTICATE WITH GOOGLE DRIVE"

💡In my case, each backup file is about 100mb. Different system setting complexity may produce backup files of different sizes. It is recommended that you refer to the capacity of your Google Drive to consider whether to open another Google account specifically for backup.

AUTHENTICATE WITH GOOGLE DRIVE
  1. After logging in, you will get a bunch of keys, click "COPY"
取得 token
  1. Return to the previous screen and paste the key in the input box below
  2. Click "SAVE"
貼上 token

You're done!

When you finally see this picture, it’s a success! I have been using HA for two years without backing up. I really admire my own luck🤣 You must not imitate this!

I’ve seen too many people cry without tears after HA crashed because they didn’t back up HA. I was really too lazy before🤣

完成 google drive backup 備份

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    • Hi M, thanks for the encouragement, I hope it helps you! It was discovered that I have posted more frequently recently🤣

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