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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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[โ€“] thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It might be worth keeping purge_keep_days configured to less than the default 10 days to keep the database size small and speed up backups etc, especially in setups running on low power hosts like a Pi and with large amounts of sensors.

[โ€“] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 9 months ago

HA is configured to log everything into MariaDB (which does not get backed up) so my backups are only 84MB including most add-ons. I use the "Home Assistant Google Drive Backup" add-on and tell it what to back up and what to ignore.