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It’s 10PM. Do you know where your encryption key is? (old.reddit.com)
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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zealousideal_Lack936 on 2026-06-26 02:24:09+00:00.

Helpful reminder to make sure you know where you stored the encryption key for your backups and still have access to it.

I recently crashed my mini PC running Proxmox and HomeAssistant while trying to add a SMB drive for network storage. No big deal I thought, just do a fresh install of ProxMox and HomeAssistant and the restore a backup. I had forgotten about the backups being encrypted and the encryption key was on a computer since dismantled and I couldn’t find the hard drive.

Starting from scratch did allow me to fix some things that I wished I had done differently.

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