Home Assistant Google Drive Backup

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This backup will not be deleted or count against the total backups kept in Source Name until you allow it manually.

This backup will be deleted from Source Name as soon as a new backup is made.

This backup is being ignored because you configured the addon to ignore some types of backups in your addon settings. It won't count against the backups stored in Home Assistant and it will never be automatically uploaded or deleted. Click "Don't Ignore" to have the addon track, upload, and eventually delete this backup.

Get Help

Maybe this add-on isn't working or you just don't know what to do. You can resolve almost any issue by following these steps:

Check the FAQ
First check out the add-on FAQ. Reading documentation is boring, it's true, but the developer spent a lot of time trying to make them easy to read and follow. If you're lucky, your question is already answered there.
Check the Forum
Next, try checking the add-on announcement forum post. Your question might already be there, and if not it's a good place to ask. If the developer can't answer your question, it might be that another user can help.
Check the Logs
This add-on makes its debug logs available. They're pretty cryptic but might give you some context for what's going wrong. Sometimes, an error only shows up in the Home Assistant supervisor logs, which you can get to from within Home Assistant by clicking "Supervisor" > "System" > "System Logs" > "Refresh".
Restart Everything
Restart the add-on. Restart Home Assistant. Reinstall the add-on. Technology loves to be restarted, it's amazing how many problems it can solve.
File an Issue
If you don't want to ask something in front of the angry mobs on the internet, you can file an issue on the project GitHub Issue Tracker, just click "new issue". The developer gets an email if make one of those, which he promises to try and help with. No question is stupid.
Reach out Directly
I put my name on this and I want it to work well for you. You can email me at stephen@beechens.com

Maybe what you're dealing with is of a more, general nature? Home Assistant has a lot of rough edges, but really anything can be frustrating.

Take care of yourself
Make sure you've had enough water to drink today. If you love coffee, it might be time to put on a new pot. If its late at night, now might be the time to hit the sack. Everything is more difficult when you're not at your best.
Get a fresh perspective
Take a walk, seriously. Sometimes the mind gets so fixated on a problem that it can't think around it anymore. Explain your problem to a duck and you might see the solution was obvious.
Be realistic
In a week you're unlikely to even remember this moment. Next year, you're going to be a different person, with a different mind. If you have the spare time to get frustrated at how your home automation system stores its backups, then whatever you've got going on in this moment is probably small potatoes. You've always been the one to decide how you react.

Authenticate with Google Drive

Clicking this link authenticates you with an external domain maintained by the developer of this add-on (habackup.io).
You can read this to understand what this means and why it's necessary.
By doing this you must agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
The addon will only have access to the files and folders it creates. It can't see any of the other files you've added to Google Drive.

After you get the authorization code from the link above, paste the result here:

Save

To generate your own private credentials with Google instead that doesn't use a third-party domain, click here. Fair warning: that way is much more complicated.

Follow the instructions here to get your own client ID and client secret from Google's Cloud Console. This is a much more complicated and time consuming approach but doesn't require you to authenticate yourself with an external domain.