Your automatic backup says 'partial'. Stop worrying about the label.

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I spent a Friday morning convinced my backups were quietly broken. The automatic backup in my Home Assistant did its job every night - and every night it came back labeled partial. A separate backup I’d triggered by hand was labeled full, and it contained the exact same thing. Same add-ons, same folders, same everything. Only the label differed. So which one could I actually restore from?

The short answer: both. And now that I’ve traced how Home Assistant decides, the label turns out to be almost meaningless.

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Your automatic backup says 'partial'. Stop worrying about the label.