For what it's worth

I was trying to load a backup for Home Assistant (haos on a pi 4) and it wouldn't work - a 500 error.

It took me until the next day to realise the cause - I was trying to reload from my Google Drive - whilst presented as a "local" disk, it is of course cloud based, and HA would have been spotted as an alien trying to access the file without appropriate credentials.

Once I had copied the backup file to a proper "local" drive, all was fine.

Hope this helps someone else.

# posted by John Geddes @ 9:52 am