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sudden furnace Nov 20, 2025, 4:03 AM

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Hello, I recently did an HA Core update and had some popups about hassos-data and hassos-data-old. I can't remember exactly what I chose but after restart, HA wouldn't boot and I got the “Waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready …”

Tried to do what was outlined here and now I'm getting the added error of the "Home Assistant CLI Not Starting! Jumping into emergency console..."
I'm not sure how to get a proper log from the console to help diagnose the issue. Any help would be super appreciative. I don't want to have to blow up the install and re-setup everything, it would be so much time to do so.

Running HA in a VM on Proxmox 8.2.5

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Waiting for home assistant cli to be ready

I have the exact same issue (with virtualbox). I don’t know what to do to unlock the situation ! Edit: I have just solved the issue following those instructions : had the same problem. My system got stuck with the message Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready.... During boot it run into a 1:30 min. timeout when accessing the /dev/...

sudden furnace Nov 22, 2025, 5:19 PM

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Anyone?

elder fog Nov 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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Can you restore a snapshot or backup?

sudden furnace Nov 23, 2025, 3:56 PM

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elder fog Can you restore a snapshot or backup?

I unfortunately didn't set up any backups on proxmox, I had forgot to schedule it.

elder fog Nov 23, 2025, 4:30 PM

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Do you have HA backups?

elder fog Nov 23, 2025, 10:46 PM

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Also check

journalctl -ru hassos-supervisor.service
docker logs -t hassio_supervisor 2>&1 | less -Rm

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:38 AM

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elder fog Do you have HA backups?

I believe so but I don't know how to access them without the UI

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:38 AM

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Did you set up the SSH addon, or SAMBA or any other such addon?

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:38 AM

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I don't think so 🙁

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:38 AM

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elder fog Also check ```bash journalctl -ru hassos-supervisor.service docker logs -t hassi...

I'm going to run this, one moment

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:39 AM

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Do you have another linux system?

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:39 AM

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elder fog Do you have another linux system?

on the same proxmox? not at the moment but i could spin one up

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:39 AM

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We just need a linux system to scp the backups to. Could be PVE itself too.

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:40 AM

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elder fog Also check ```bash journalctl -ru hassos-supervisor.service docker logs -t hassi...

no entries for the journalctl -ru hassos-supervisor.service

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:40 AM

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Run this in the VM

scp -rv /mnt/data/supervisor/backup/ root@PVENODEIPHERE:~/haos_backups

Then download the files from there PVE via FileZilla or WinSCP.

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:41 AM

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using another linux system, alright I'll try that

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:41 AM

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Once that's done stop the VM, attach a fresh HAOS disk, make it bootable, boot from it, in onboarding restore your backup.
Make a snapshot/backup right now.

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:42 AM

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and if I don't have backups in there, am I SOL? just start from scratch? and ensure I have backups next time lol

elder fog Nov 24, 2025, 12:42 AM

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We'll see. We can also transfer your core settings.

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Or try to fix things.

sudden furnace Nov 24, 2025, 12:43 AM

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elder fog Run this in the VM ```bash scp -rv /mnt/data/supervisor/backup/ root@PVENODEIPHE...

I'll try this after dinner, hard to cook and type

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thanks for helping, I'll let you know how it goes

sudden furnace Nov 26, 2025, 1:51 PM

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Busy week for me so I'll have to give this a shot sometime next week 🥲

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 7:29 PM

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elder fog Run this in the VM ```bash scp -rv /mnt/data/supervisor/backup/ root@PVENODEIPHE...

unfortunately it's saying it can't find that directory

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sorry it took me so long to get to this, it's been an insane few weeks for me

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 7:31 PM

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That is not the HAOS VM's CLI.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 7:35 PM

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you said for me to use a linux system

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I guess I misunderstood

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 7:36 PM

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elder fog That is not the HAOS VM's CLI.

do you want me to run this on the HAOS node?

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sorry, I don't do much linux stuff so my knowledge is limited

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 7:42 PM

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I have no idea what I said. It's been too long. That command only works on the HAOS system though.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 7:42 PM

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sorry about that, end of November and beginning of december are crazy weeks for me

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 7:44 PM

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elder fog I have no idea what I said. It's been too long. That command only works on the H...

okay, should I try that in the HASOS console?

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 8:00 PM

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I think I may just blow it up and start from scratch. till take me a long time to get everything up but it feels like I just don't have the knowledge to search for my backups lol

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 8:27 PM

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This tilde looks weird. Otherwise this should work

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And v is a valid option

# scp
usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [[user@]host2:]file2

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:16 PM

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elder fog This tilde looks weird. Otherwise this should work

that's just how it's appearing in the console I guess

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I copy-pasted your code with my IP added, didn't change anything else

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 9:18 PM

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You can also replace ~ with /home/USERNAMEHERE. It's just a shortcut.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:18 PM

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sure I can try that

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use my HA username?

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scp -rv /mnt/data/supervisor/backup/ root@192.168.1.132:/home/dimitri/haos_backups

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 9:24 PM

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No. The path leads to where you want to store the data in the given host. Use whatever you want. Could also be /root/habackups.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:31 PM

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elder fog No. The path leads to where you want to store the data in the given host. Use wh...

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 9:33 PM

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The second part needs to point to another machine, not just a path.

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This command was meant to push your backups to another device.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:33 PM

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oh I understand

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it can be any machine on the network? any pre-setup I need to do on said machine? you said it's best for it to be linux right?

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 9:34 PM

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Any Linux machine. The idea was that you use your PVE node.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:37 PM

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would be easier if I just sent it to another GUI machine I think, considering my lack of knowledge lol

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easier to grab the files off of afterwards I'd assume

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 9:41 PM

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elder fog Any Linux machine. The idea was that you use your PVE node.

ok well I did it to the node!

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now you suggested getting them via FileZilla or WinSCP?

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elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 10:05 PM

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Yep.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 10:06 PM

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ok, what should I be doing next?

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 10:07 PM

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Like I said, I'm missing the context. I'm guessing the plan was to blow it away, hence the backups.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 10:11 PM

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well I can't get back into HA at all

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so I wasn't sure what would be the best path forward

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 10:11 PM

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elder fog Once that's done stop the VM, attach a fresh HAOS disk, make it bootable, boot f...

you had mentioned grabbing these and then restoring with a fresh install of HA I think

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 10:12 PM

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ha datadisk wipe might work too.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 10:12 PM

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so I guess I'll give that a go

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ok let me try

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unfortunately not

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anything I need to do with these backup files? is each folder a different backup revision?

elder fog Dec 16, 2025, 10:13 PM

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Nothing. You upload it in onboarding when you install HA again.

sudden furnace Dec 16, 2025, 10:14 PM

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ok I'll give that a shot

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