hassio-google-drive-backup VS operating-system

I'm trying to achieve something simillar to how Home Assistant's Google Drive Backup works, but for my TrueNAS Scale, I currently have the following datasets under my dataset:

First add on to install once you have it up and running should be the google drive backup so that if anything gos wrong, you can just restore your backup

Google Drive backups

Not sure what kind of backup you use, but I'd recommend https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup as it can also schedule backups as well as delete/prune old ones. Nice to have an external backup if your SD card with the latest snapshots you forgot to copy somewhere else accidentaly dies... :-)

You could move everything over to Home Assistant, and add the Google Drive backup add-on for foolproof backups that takes like 2 minutes to set up. It'll backup everything by default, including your zigbee stuff.

Actually the add-on author did state that he probably won’t add additional storage providers like Ms One drive, Dropbox, iCloud, AWS etc.

Yeah, just use https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup

Did you make a snapshots already. That's pretty important. Sd cards are more likely to fail. It would be a pain to set everything up from scratch again. You can also use the Google drive backup add-on for automatic external backups https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/pull/3248

BTW found exact same issue with homeassistant browsing the internet; Add support for Intel GMAC Ethernet controller (#2589) (#2593) · home-assistant/operating-system@9ca836f (github.com)

HAOS (https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system) is not "vanilla" linux, and I have somewhat little experience of linux, although using raspberry-based systems (Domoticz, Pihole, etc) and basic usage of unix mainframes since early 90s. But the question I could not find answer for by googling is, could I use HAOS to farm chia as well, or is it too much optimized towards HA usage to reasonably serve as a chia farming computer too?

The main issue with the 3A+ is the 512MB of RAM. Combined with only having one USB port and no Ethernet, I would not advise using a pi3A+ as a sustainable foundation for HA.

Home assistant was the last thing I had running as a VM, but recently switched over to running it in a LXC container with their ContainerOS (i think that's what they call it). I would say don't do it (at least not yet), and go with their full OS in a VM (dl link to correct KVM/qcow2 version). I say don't start with HomeAssistantContainer b/c you lose Supervisor and the add-on store, and it's a bit less straighforward to get installed.

One thing to notice, I have been able to successfully boot Home Assistant OS Generic x86-64 https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system which is using kernel 5.15+ and I don't know why I am able to boot HAOS (maybe they are using uncompressed kernel?), but not other general or special Linux distributions.

Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

hass.io builds the whole gamut of images. There's a list at the bottom of the github page https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/tag/8.0.rc2