I thought I had a backup. I use the Gdrive add-on and it should have had a backup.

I didn’t have a backup.

Turns out when I moved from a Pi to Proxmox I didn’t set Gdrive add-on up properly, so it wasn’t making backups every 3 days like it always has.

Then I killed Proxmox. No idea what I did to kill it, I just tried to make my NAS VM have 4gb ram all the time instead of Ballooning from 1gb, and it never booted again.

So I had to start fresh. But while I’ve only been playing with VMs for a couple months my HA instance has been a work of love since Lockdowns and COVID times.

And now I’m starting again.

Now go and check your backup solution.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    A painful lesson to be sure, but also perhaps an opportunity to spruce up or rethink some of those original automations and integrations. I’ve been messing with my own rig since the lockdowns and while it’s not exactly a mess, per se, I certainly know more now than I did then. Refactoring your code is rarely a spontaneous activity.

    Also, I’m checking now and oops, syncing backups off-box broke thanks for prompting me to check!

    • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yes indeed, I am trying to revamp a little. It’s slow work (because I’m trying to get a bunch of VMs running not just HA, we have Plex running again!) but so far I haven’t even installed Node Red yet, and it’s where I did all my automations.

      So my Motion Sensor lights are all running in HA now rather than Node Red and seem to be ok. I haven’t had a complaint that the bathroom lights have cut out on anyone yet, and that happened occasionally before.

      Glad I’ve prompted you and you’ve found your backup lacking, that was the plan