Auto Backup is an Improved Backup Service for Home Assistant that can Automatically Remove Backups and Supports Generational Backup Schemes.

While Home Assistant does provide built-in services for creating backups, they do not provide the ability to exclude items from a backup, or a way to automatically remove them, this custom component aims to fix that.

For more information and examples check the documentation.

• Provides more advanced and configurable service calls.
• Exclude addons/folders from a backup.
• Automatically delete backups after an individually specified amount of time.
• Download backups to a specified directory after completion (for example a usb drive).
• Allows the use of addon names instead of slugs.
• Provides a sensor to monitor the status of your backups.
• Creates events for when backups are started/created/failed/deleted.
• Supports generational backup schemes.

Automation Examples using Services

• auto_backup.backup
• auto_backup.backup_full
• auto_backup.backup_partial
• auto_backup.purge

Automation Example using Events

• auto_backup.backup_start
• auto_backup.backup_successful
• auto_backup.backup_failed
• auto_backup.purged_backups

After installing Auto Backup via HACS, it can then be setup via the UI, by going to Configuration → Devices & Services → Add Integration → Auto Backup or by clicking the button below.

• Automatically delete expired backups

  • This option will automatically purge any expired backups when creating a new backup.

• Backup Timeout

  • You can increase this value if you get timeout errors when creating a backup. This can happen with very large backups. Increasing this might make Auto Backup less reliable at monitoring backups to delete.