Suggested Edit for Virtual Box config prior to a restore/recovery

[jn3va]

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I needed to do a restore of a HA that has been running for several years on a Linux/Virtualbox. My Backup was almost 4GB. I created the new Virtualbox instance, started HA, and selected the restore backup option. After several hours waiting I used the console HA> supervisor logs command to check status. The log showed: Home Assistant has Crashed in red. There was also a code dump section showing some python code (I could not read the whole thing) but could see an "out of space" notice. It might be worth adding a 4.1 step in the virtual box configuration section to manually increase the size of the vdi from the original 32GB to 64GB, 100GB or whatever using the Virtualbox virtual media manager before starting HA to do the restore. After this increase the restore went flawlessly. Thanks!

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/

Version

2024.10.2

Additional information

Suggested Edit: 4. Under Hard Disk, select Use an existing virtual hard disk file, select the unzipped VDI file from above. 4.1 (optional) If you have an existing Home Assistant backup you will be restoring, prior to starting the VM, use the Virtualbox virtual media manager to increase the size of the VDI. For example, increase to 64GB, 100GB or whatever your hardware will support.