Home Assistant, I know I can do better than you.

Let's try streaming a raw tar file over the network to a machine that can compress faster.

On the HA machine:

time tar -cvf - --exclude='backups/*.tar' --exclude='*.db-shm' --exclude='*.log' --exclude='*.log.*' --exclude='tts/*' * | nc -Nl 2222

And on my M2 Pro Mac:

time nc sadpunk 2222 | gzip > ha-manual.tar.gz

9:28.20. Better than the 15 mins.

But we can do better! Let's give it some pigz.

time nc sadpunk 2222 | pigz > ha-manual.tar.gz

3:44.93. That'll do nicely. Down from nearly 2 hours to just under 4 minutes.

Jesus fucking christ WHAT THE FUCK, HOME ASSISTANT.

So, the backup needs to be a tarball containing a file called backup.json (metadata) and the gzipped tarball I made.

The upload of the backup failed because HA is expecting the tarball to contain ./backup.json and I added it just as backup.json. What the actual fuck.

I've written up the full saga: https://pub.jamesog.net/3lysnfelse22w

This is published on https://leaflet.pub/ which uses ATproto to store your posts. It's pretty nice. Much nicer than my Hugo setup that constantly breaks, anyway.