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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/HTTP_404_NotFound on 2025-01-08 14:35:31+00:00.

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Was moving around some entities on my network this morning to new vlans…

And, since, home assistant has no easy way to handle this, it involved editing .storage/core.core_entities.

Made a mistake, and corrupted the file.

Ooops.

Fixed the file. Rebooted. All of my entities have default names now.

No problem. I’ll just restore my backup.

Restore database must match backup

Oh. Guess, there might be issues with the new 2025.1 backup functionality. I’ll just download the backup file and fetch the config files from it.

Oh, turns out… there is something very, very wrong with the backup files. The inner .tar files, are not readable, for any of the addons.

Hunh.

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TLDR; don’t forget the golden rule. TEST your backups.

For me- My trusty proxmox backup server has me handled. I can do file-level restores with it, and be on my way.

BUT, as a keen warning to the rest of you- backups aren’t a set and forget thing. You do need to occassionally test and validate them.

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Edit- don’t worry about me! I’m already backup and running. Did a file-level restore for the core config/device/entity files from Proxmox backup server, rebooted, and backup and running, with basically nothing lost. The point of this post is for everyone to ensure their backups are working!

If, I setup the new 2025.1 backup functionality, and just ASSUMED it was working…

And then couldn’t restore it- well… that would be a problem.