Creating backups in Home Assistant

By this point, since we started creating our Home Automation system in Chapter 2, a lot of configuration, setup, and customizations have been made to Home Assistant. You never know when things can go wrong, so it is best to be safe and back up your system regularly so you don’t lose the work done up to this point, as well as saving future changes we make to the system. In this section, we will cover how you can manually create Home Assistant backups, how to retrieve them, and how you can automate backup creation.

Creating and retrieving manual backups using Home Assistant

You can create and retrieve backups manually using a Home Assistant built-in backup tool. Follow these steps:

1. From the sidebar, go to Settings | System | Backups. Click on the + CREATE BACKUP button on the bottom right.
2. The pop-up window shown in Figure 8.1 will be presented. Include a backup name in the Backup name field. Choose the option you need for backup...