#all i did was scp my ha dir over to new
rancid sigil
You missed the hidden files and folders, particularly .storage/ but there are others
timber dragon
thanks for the reply, Tinkerer. i even tried scp/rsync with privs but it still left things behind. i ended up using taking a backup and manually extracting the contents to the new/empty config dir on the new server. guess you have to do it that way in a container setup.
rancid sigil
Nah, but you do have to get the sync to include hidden files, which is easy enough to do, and well documented
timber dragon
this was after a transfer:
$ ll -la data/home-assistant/config/
total 1009884
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1718 Jun 20 22:07 automations.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 17:20 backups/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 6 2021 blueprints/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 2021 .cloud/
-rw-r--r-- 1 kinghat kinghat 1366 Jul 18 17:41 configuration.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 15 03:57 custom_components/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 2021 deps/
-rw-r--r-- 1 kinghat kinghat 0 Jul 6 2021 groups.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Sep 26 19:15 .HA_VERSION
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2068 Sep 29 00:20 home-assistant.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54856 Sep 28 23:25 home-assistant.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1033994240 Sep 29 01:30 home-assistant_v2.db
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 11 16:51 image/
-rw-r--r-- 1 kinghat kinghat 0 Jul 6 2021 scenes.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kinghat kinghat 475 Dec 11 2021 scripts.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 29 01:30 .storage/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 2021 tts/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 15 18:13 www/
$ sudo rsync -av --progress /mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant /home/kinghat/containers/data/ | grep -i error
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/nohup.out": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/secrets.yaml": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/.storage/auth": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/.storage/auth_provider.homeassistant": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/.storage/core.config": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/.storage/core.uuid": Permission denied (13)
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/mnt/tyler/data/containers/home-assistant/config/.storage/onboarding": Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1333) [sender=3.2.3]
rancid sigil
Well, you've got a permissions issue there, very clearly
If you'd fixed that, you'd have been fine
timber dragon
its whatever the container configured them as 🤷♂️ sorry for being dense about this but are you saying that i should have recursively chowned the ha config dir before copying?
rancid sigil
Well, you needed to run it as a user that had access to the files
The other option would have been to tar the folder, and then untar it in the destination
timber dragon
Well, you needed to run it as a user that had access to the files
you mean run the container as user?
rancid sigil
No
The problem is that it couldn't read/write some of those files, as the user you ran it as
I'm guessing that /mnt/tyler is a remote mount
So, way you mounted that, and that you never checked the logs, is why you had issues
timber dragon
i tried copying via scp/rsync as user and root over ssh and that sshfs mount and same thing each time.
i also tried doing the same from the source end to dest and same thing.
rancid sigil
How did you mount /mnt/tyler
rancid sigil
Right, so ... the permissions there are part of your issue
However, you can rsync over SSH, which is the right way of doing this IMO
timber dragon
i did that initially, not using that mount but ssh, and same thing.