Backup name default not working

[Mask3007]

The problem

According to the inbuild documentation. Leaving the backup name empty should result in the default "current date and time".

In the Backup Overview the Backup displays as cryptic "536b9622" not with the defaulted name. Not distracted by that... I downloaded the Backup and looked at its backup.json and it also does not have any name:

{ "version": 2, "slug": "536b9622", "name": "", "date": "2023-06-09T09:28:24.693196+00:00", "type": "full", "supervisor_version": "2023.06.1", "... hint ..." : "... removed several attributes for smaller issue overview...", "compressed": true, "crypto": "aes128" }

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.6.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Backup

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/backup/

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

service: hassio.backup_full
data:
  compressed: true
  password: 123456Secr€t

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

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[Mask3007]

Sorry if this is pointed to the wrong integration I think I missed that it is the build in functionality in supervisor?

https://www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os/#backups

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[rananna]

I am having the same issue, the default backup name is random hex

[ludeeus]

The default is blank ””

[rananna]

Sorry, I meant if I leave the name as blank (default) , the backup name is generated a randem hex, not current date and time

[ludeeus]

No, see the first post, the name is "" ("name": "")

[rananna]

Yes, Ok, but rhe result is still random hex, not current date and time

[ludeeus]

Again, no.
Maybe you are talking about file names. Those have always been hex. and is not controllable to ensure uniqueness.

[rananna]

No, i am referiing to the name in the supervisor.
To get current date as the file name I need the following script:
service: hassio.backup_full
data:
compressed: true
name: "{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"

With name: "", you get random hex generated.

[ludeeus]

In the UI? in the API? in the json file as shown in the initial post?
The UI falls back to showing the slug (hex) if the name is blank https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/blob/dev/hassio/src/backups/hassio-backups.ts#L128 but even here, the name is "" and not hex.

[rananna]

In system - backups in the ui

[Mask3007]

Yeah but in the doc of hassio there is declared that if the name is blank hassio uses date and time.

That the slug is represented on empty name is not the problem. The problem is either that the doc is wrong, so the hassio integration is not generating any default name, or that the issue is that the hassio integration is not generating the name with date and time if none provided.

Take a look at the screenshot where it clearly stands that the default is date and time. This hint is provided by the integration.

[ludeeus]

Right, so the name is "".
Hassio (if you create it in that UI) will use date as the name.
The service call (which this issue is for) does not.

[rananna]

The service call docs need to de changed then. It currently indicates that a blank name will result in a date and time name

[ludeeus]

Correct (which is why this issue is still open)