The description states that the data is safe because it’s not in the container. That’s incorrect. So, how do I create a backup? The specified folder is empty 
No data separately in ~/.homey-shs (or somewhere else if you configured that?).
(I have created a cron job that do a nightly backup in a script performing docker pause, backup of data and then unpause on mine).
The job is executed by Linux itself? And the entire container is backed up? A short guide would be great.
I am somewhat familiar with linux, but not docker so I asked chatgp for advice.
In the YML I am storing the data in a different place than default:
volumes:
- /srv/homey/data:/homey/user
Script:
bjornb@NUC:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/homey-backup.sh #!/bin/bash set -e BACKUP_DIR="/var/backups/homey" DATA_DIR="/srv/homey/data" COMPOSE_FILE="/srv/homey/homey-shs.yml" TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M") BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIR/homey-backup-$TIMESTAMP.tar.gz" KEEP_DAYS=14 echo "[INFO] Starting Homey backup: $TIMESTAMP" # Stop Homey cleanly #docker compose -f "$COMPOSE_FILE" down docker pause homey-shs # Create backup tar -czf "$BACKUP_FILE" -C /srv/homey data # Restart Homey #docker compose -f "$COMPOSE_FILE" up -d docker unpause homey-shs # Remove backups older than KEEP_DAYS find "$BACKUP_DIR" -type f -name "homey-*.tar.gz" -mtime +$KEEP_DAYS -delete echo "[INFO] Backup completed successfully" bjornb@NUC:~$
(I have not tried to do a an actual restore yet, but the tar.gz file does contain a lot of data).
The script is running nightly as a cron job.
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