A Home Assistant add-on that automatically creates and syncs backups to Google Drive with easy configuration and cleanup.
Home Assistant Google Drive Backup is an add-on for Home Assistant that automates the backup process by creating scheduled backups and syncing them to Google Drive. It solves the problem of manual backup management by providing automated cleanup, easy restoration, and integrated notifications to ensure data safety for home automation setups.
Home Assistant users who want a reliable, set-and-forget backup solution without deep technical knowledge of Home Assistant's architecture or Google Drive integration.
Developers choose this add-on because it offers a complete, easy-to-configure backup system with a privacy-centric design, a user-friendly web UI, and robust features like generational backups and failure notifications, all without requiring custom YAML or complex setups.
Automatically create and sync Home Assistant backups into Google Drive
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Configures daily backups automatically and removes old backups from both Home Assistant and Google Drive to prevent storage overflow, as highlighted in the backup cleanup feature.
Allows restoring backups directly from Google Drive, even after a fresh Home Assistant install, with step-by-step instructions provided in the Web UI and FAQ.
Supports keeping backups on daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals for long-term retention, with customizable settings explained in the configuration documentation.
Sends Home Assistant notifications and exposes binary sensors like backups_stale to alert users of failures, ensuring reliability through redundancy, as demonstrated in the Lovelace card example.
Cannot create backups more than once a day, which may be insufficient for environments with frequent changes or high criticality, as admitted in the FAQ's customization limits.
Exclusively supports Google Drive for cloud storage; the README states it will likely never add other providers, and using own API credentials is described as a tedious process.
Lacks advanced features like event-based triggers or subfolder exclusion, limiting flexibility for power users who need highly tailored backup strategies.