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I've been self-hosting Home Assistant for over a year, and I want to take the dive into more self-hosting. I want to start by converting an old laptop into a home server. Assuming that goes well, I'll probably want to upgrade to a more modern, purpose built server and NAS fairly soon. How can I make sure that what I set up on the laptop can be easily moved to my upgraded hardware later?

Additional notes:

  • I'm already using Tailscale (it's what prompted me to want to do more self-hosting)
  • I want to be able to access my server via Tailscale, but I want everything mapped to my own custom domain via a reverse proxy
  • I'm planning on using Proxmox

Thanks in advance for the advice! :)

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[–] Infinite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

In Home Assistant, navigate to Settings > System > Backups. Configure the backup settings and create a manual backup.

On your new Proxmox server, you can download the qcow2 file from Home Assistant's website and run it as a virtual machine.

On first boot, you can import your previous configuration from a backup.