Home Assistant Transplant

Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short while ago, homeassistant was suddenly no longer responding. Neither web ui nor a SSH login worked. So I cut the RPi's power and rebooted it. That seemed to have fixed it and I didn't think about it. Then this weekend I wanted to update Home Assistant and create a backup as usual beforehand. But somehow this backup always failed with failed to perform the action update/install. Error creating backup: Backup failed: [{'type': 'HomeAssistantBackupError', 'message': “Preparing backup of Home Assistant Core failed. Failed to inform HA Core: Unsuccessful websocket message - {'id': 232, 'type': 'result', 'success': False, 'error': {'code': 'pre_backup_actions_failed', 'message': 'Error during pre-backup: Could not lock database within 30 seconds.'}}.”, 'stage': 'home_assistant', 'error_key': None, 'extra_fields': None}] Looking at the logs I saw The system could not validate…