Home Assistant backups are hard to store, verify, and restore
Home Assistant users want backups they can rely on when hardware or data fails, but the built-in workflow leaves gaps in destination support, backup-status visibility, and configuration flexibility. Saving to USB drives or less-supported cloud services can require mounting drives, shell commands, or third-party workarounds, while backup failures may go unnoticed. Some users also want more precise recovery, such as restoring history without reverting newer configuration.
For home Assistant users managing their own installations. Mentioned from Feb 2024 to Jan 2026 on Bluesky, product forums, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
31 different people described this problem in 16 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 6.0/10
- Pain
- 5.6/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 2.5/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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It’s insane that this new backup solution was implemented without a sensor to monitor if it was successful? This is surely the most fundamental aspect of this and it appears to still not exist months later or am I missing something here?
But so i cant Trigger If the Backup fails, a Backup Status ist missing
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