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thomasmauerer / hassio-addons

My collection of addons for Home Assistant
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"Backup Now" functionality? #170

Closed DReffects closed 8 months ago

DReffects commented 8 months ago

Hello there!

Great addon - just wanted to ask if there's a hidden "Backup now!" mechanic somewhere. I am playing around ALOT with HA and would love to have the ability to instantly create a backup when needed.

Thanks :-)

DReffects commented 8 months ago

Ah sorry. nevermind my stupid question. After I was looking through the projects main github page i've posted, not reading up on the more detailed documentation linked from within the addon.

Here's a solution anyway for anyone else wondering:

Create a new automation "backupnow" that references the service hassio.addon_stdin and triggers:

service: hassio.addon_stdin data: addon: 15d21743_samba_backup input: trigger

In your dashboard create a card with the following:

show_name: true show_icon: true type: entity-button tap_action: action: call-service service: automation.trigger service_data: entity_id: automation.backupnow hold_action: action: more-info entity: automation.sys_backupnow icon_height: 25px name: Create backup now icon: mdi:cloud-upload

thomasmauerer commented 8 months ago

Yes, using a manual trigger from a script is the way to go. --> https://github.com/thomasmauerer/hassio-addons/blob/master/samba-backup/DOCS.md#manual-triggers