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Backing upyour Home Assistant configuration to USB.
A good plus side is that you don't need to mask all your passwords since the backup is locally at your home/residence.
Backing upyour Home Assistant configuration to USB. A good plus side is that you don't need to mask all your passwords since the backup is locally at your home/residence.
### {% linkable_title Requirements %}
First you need a USB stick. Once you have one you need to prepare it to be used on your device.
Once connected you want to format/work with the drive. To know what path it is in, you can check with dmesg.
Once connected you want to format/work with the drive. To know what path it is in, you can check with `dmesg`.
```
root@hassbian:/media# dmesg|grep sd
```bash
# dmesg | grep sd
[ 0.909712] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.916414] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 0.923366] sdhost: log_buf @ bac07000 (fac07000)
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[726259.209004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
```
Here we see we have a drive on /dev/sda1. We assume you created a partition on the drive to start with. This can be any type of partition. Preffered is a linux one so you can set permissions!
Mount the drive (as root) to /media
Here we see we have a drive on `/dev/sda1`. We assume you created a partition on the drive to start with. This can be any type of partition. Preferred is a Linux filesystem type so you can set permissions!
```
root@hassbian:~# mount /dev/sda1 /media/
Mount the drive (as root) to `/media`
```bash
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/
```
### {% linkable_title Prepare USB Stick %}
Cd into it and create a folder called 'hassbackup' and chown it to the user that runs homeassistant. In my case group and user are both homeassistant.
```
root@hassbian:~# cd /media/
root@hassbian:/media# mkdir hassbackup
root@hassbian:/media# chown homeassistant:homeassistant hassbackup/
root@hassbian:/media# ls -al
Change into it and create a folder called `hassbackup` and change the ownership to the user that runs Home Assistant. In my case group and user are both `homeassistant`.
```bash
# cd /media/
/media# mkdir hassbackup
/media# chown homeassistant:homeassistant hassbackup/
/media# ls -al
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 29 10:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Mar 22 18:37 ..
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### {% linkable_title Install Dependency %}
In order to preserve space on your drive we use zip. Install that too.
```
root@hassbian:/media# apt-get install zip
```bash
/media# apt-get install zip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
etc etc etc
[...]
Setting up zip (3.0-8) ...
```
### {% linkable_title Install & run script %}
### {% linkable_title Install and run script %}
Become the homeassistant user and place the following [script](https://gist.github.com/riemers/041c6a386a2eab95c55ba3ccaa10e7b0) to a place of your liking.
Don't forget to 'chmod +x usb_backup.sh'
Become the `homeassistant` user and place the following [script](https://gist.github.com/riemers/041c6a386a2eab95c55ba3ccaa10e7b0) to a place of your liking.
Open up the file and change the paths you want to use, then simply run the usb_backup.sh
```bash
# wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/riemers/041c6a386a2eab95c55ba3ccaa10e7b0/raw/86727d4e72e9757da4f68f1c9d784720e72d0e99/usb_backup.sh
```
homeassistant@hassbian:~ $ .homeassistant/extraconfig/shell_code/usb_backup.sh
Make the downloaded script executable.
```bash
# chmod +x usb_backup.sh
```
Open up the file and change the paths you want to use, then simply run the `./usb_backup.sh`.
```bash
$ .homeassistant/extraconfig/shell_code/usb_backup.sh
[i] Creating backup
[i] Backup complete: /media/hassbackup/hass-config_20170429_112728.zip
[i] Keeping all files no prunning set
```
### {% linkable_title Crontab %}
In order for this to automaticly make a backup every night at 3, you can add a crontab for it as the homeassistant user.
Change below path to where you placed the usb_backup.sh and run the following line.
In order for this to automatically make a backup every night at 3 am, you can add a crontab for it as the `homeassistant` user.
Change below path to where you placed the `usb_backup.sh` and run the following line.
```
```bash
(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 3 * * * /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/extraconfig/shell_code/usb_backup.sh") | crontab -
```
### {% linkable_title Auto mount %}
This does not automaticly mount your usb drive at boot. You need to do that manually or add a line to your /etc/fstab
If your drive is on /dev/sda1, you could add a entry to your /etc/fstab like so:
```
This does not automaticly mount your USB drive at boot. You need to do that manually or add a line to your `/etc/fstab` file.
If your drive is on `/dev/sda1`, you could add a entry to your `/etc/fstab` like so:
```text
/dev/sda1 /media ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
```
Manual: 'mount /dev/sda1 /media'
Manual step to mount the USB drive:
```bash
# mount /dev/sda1 /media
```

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<ul>
<li>{% active_link /docs/ecosystem/backup/backup_github/ Backup to GitHub %}</li>
<li>{% active_link /docs/ecosystem/backup/backup_dropbox/ Backup to Dropbox %}</li>
<li>{% active_link /docs/ecosystem/backup/backup_usb/ Backup to USB device %}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>{% active_link /docs/ecosystem/scenegen/ scenegen %}</li>