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Unfortunately their new backup support forces encryption; that makes sense for cloud-based backups but not for local (NAS etc.) ones. Requests for that just get replies to do it with manual backups the old way.

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Unencrypted backups is an option.

Why is that unfortunate? Encrypting backups is just a good best practice in general.

Because that means I need to manage the encryption key (which is a file, not a password). It makes it harder to do restores because I need to dig out the key.

I don't have anything I care about in the Home Assistant install to need encryption; if you have access to that you are already in the network, same as the actual running device.

It is unfortunate if you want to deduplicate and encrypt in the target backup.

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