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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/munkisquisher on 2025-05-15 00:51:16+00:00.
Had a SSD main drive die on on my NUC running HA this week. First up HA kept serving the dashboard and most sensors kept working. Got a huge string of errors about the recorder and "config.yaml not found" and other worrying errors. But the thing kept running without any filesystem! I tried to restart it and it said it couldn't restart due to the config being invalid.
So after replacing the drive, following the install instructions to image the drive and booting for the first time. I was presented with a "restore from nabu casa cloud" option! Last time I had to reinstall was when I moved from a Pi to the NUC and you had to install the whole OS, create an account, get it online, copy over the backup file somehow (I think I set up the google drive addon to pull down my latest) and then get into your settings to restore from that backup.
So Kudos to the HA team for making it so seamless! It's come a long way.
And if you are reading this, why didn't the network settings (static IP I had before) or my network shares get restored too? They are the only things I can see that are missing.