Backup your Home Assistant Snapshots Automatically to the Cloud with Google Drive

In this video I will show you how to backup your Home Assistant snapshots automatically to the cloud using Google Drive and an awesome community add-on called Home Assistant Google Drive Backup. I will show you how to install and configure the add-on as well as how to automatically notify if it stops working.

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[geogmz]

Hey! I like to run around with my pants down. 😒

[liuesstuo]

I have been using this add-on since it came out. However I didn’t know about the backup sensor. Goes to show you even if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know everything and fresh eyes looking at the situation it’s always a plus. Thanks for the great content.

[johntisbury]

Thank you this was very helpful. Day 1 owner of Home Assistant and wanted to start off on the right foot with a good backup strategy.

[IanTakats]

Very subtle homage to Paul Hibbert...love the video. Thanks for doing it and thanks to that man Stephen for putting the code together.

[PersonXes]

For those that want to backup on a network share: the Samba backup add-on works great!

[hackerone]

I discovered your channel today and I'm binge watching all your video. much love from italy

[Fawstah]

Thank you, starting a new smart home with home assistant and this offered immense peace of mind

[craigsamuels]

Thank you for the shout out and using my name suggestion for your channel 🙂🎉😁👊🏾🙏🏾

[burner]

Thanks for the great video! There is one important thing that was not mentioned in the video that would have avoided me some troubles:
Be careful if like me you are using the Plex add-on with all your files saved in the 'media' directory.
In the add-on settings you should activate 'Partial Backups' and deselect the 'media' directory. Otherwise the add-on will try to backup everything.
I ended up with a temporary directory in the 'tmp' directory that filled up the whole ssd. Since there was not enough space left the back up failed and Home Assistant was not functioning properly anymore (could not assess remotely, ...).

[austingarland]

This is exactly what I use and it is awesome. The add-on creator is also very responsive and helpful.

[martinottolangui]

saved me bacon, couldn't remember where i stored the back ups, home assistant lost all network christ knows why, so went scorched earth and went for a new start, halfway through watching released where my back ups were separate gdrive, cheers

[DLWertz]

Thank you! Took me less than 2 minutes to setup after watching your video!

[mkjustuk]

Great video again, already use this but didn't know about the binary sensor - do now!!

[nicsarahnicol]

Ideal! Thanks :)
Not used the automation you did at the end as I noticed on my install it said it would maintain a persistant notification in HA which I think is enough for me.
I run HA in Proxmox LXC container - should I automate snapshots there too? or is that overkill?
Thanks for another great vid

[roelantsf]

Thank you so much for this video this saved me lot of worries, yes I was living on the wild side because I keep getting errors on mounting an usb stick, now I just has to move everything to an SSD.

[aidanhedley]

just starting with HA - your videos are clear well presented and useful wish I had found them earlier, would have saved me hours

[SlackerLabs]

Love this format! And I just installed this add-on. Perfect timing.

[sjcsystems]

When you add a third party repository, click Close, then press F5 to refresh your browser - they should appear at the bottom...

[Jacko]

Loving the new content... deffo my new favourite.
I've just added fully kiosk browser into home assistant... deffo a future video

[macartanmcquaid]

I'm getting invalid add-on repository when I try to add it using the URL?