no backup file created

[terri1769]

I finally got SSH working properly from the HA server to my NAS. That was a permissions issue on .ssh and .authorized_keys on the server. Just including that for completeness.

Now when I try to run Remote Backup the log shows it will create a full backup but then creates null.tar or null.zip, depending on whether or not I have a zip password set. No backup file is ever created and thus never uploaded.

Please note that I've intentionally obscured the server name but it is accurate in the config and log.

Config: custom_prefix: Automated_backup debug: false exclude_addons: "" exclude_folders: "" friendly_name: true keep_local_backup: "3" rclone_copy: false rclone_enabled: false rclone_remote: "" rclone_remote_directory: "" rclone_restore: false rclone_sync: false remote_directory: /mnt/main_data_pool/main_data_dataset/backups/HASSOS rsync_enabled: false rsync_exclude: "" rsync_host: "" rsync_password: "" rsync_rootfolder: hassio-sync rsync_user: "" rsync_verbose: false ssh_enabled: true ssh_host: ..com ssh_host_key_algorithms: "" ssh_key: id_rsa ssh_port: "22" ssh_user: terri zip_password: ""

Log: s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/00-banner.sh

Add-on: Remote Backup Automatically create and backup HA backups using SCP

Add-on version: 2022.7.2 You are running the latest version of this add-on. System: Home Assistant OS 8.4 (amd64 / qemux86-64) Home Assistant Core: 2022.8.0 Home Assistant Supervisor: 2022.08.3

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cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/00-banner.sh exited 0 cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/01-log-level.sh cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/01-log-level.sh exited 0 s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started [info] Adding SSH key [info] SSH key added [warn] Creating local backup: "Automated_backup 2022-08-11 21-33" [info] Creating full backup [info] Backup created: null [warn] Copying null.tar to /mnt/main_data_pool/main_data_dataset/backups/HASSOS on ..com using SCP Warning: Permanently added '..com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. scp: stat local "null.tar": No such file or directory s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully stopped s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped

I have also tried shortening the custom prefix to just "hass". Didn't help. HASSOS is running on a robust TrueNAS server in a Ubuntu VM.

[patman15]

Did you check that you have enough disk space? Try to create a backup via the GUI and see if that works. It looks to me like an issue with the backup creation by HA not like an issue of this addon. This also happens if a backup is already running that you have probably started before.

[terri1769]

Yes. I just double checked and ran a full backup via the gui. It worked fine and completed as expected.

[patman15]

Ok then this issue can be closed. I will work on better error handling / reporting to make this more obvious. Thanks for the report!