Error code 413

[TheCazz]

Describe the bug
Status Error when run backup

To Reproduce
Run backup manual with the button "Backup Now"

Expected behavior
Clean nice backup

System information

• Home Assistant Version : 2025.1.2
• Home Assistant Supervisor Version : 2024.12.3
• Nextcloud Version : 30.0.4
• Addon version : 0.17.7
• If any, reverse proxy in fort on Nextcloud :

Additional context
Status show error

"Fail to upload snapshot to nextcloud (HTTPError: Response code 413 (Request Entity Too Large)) !"

[05k4rausdertonne]

I second that. my automatic backup fails for the same reason.
this is my log:

[2025-01-30 23:37:06] [error]: 	Fail to upload snapshot to nextcloud (HTTPError: Response code 413 (Request Entity Too Large)) !
[2025-01-30 23:37:06] [error]: 	HTTPError: Response code 413 (Request Entity Too Large)
    at Request._onResponseBase (file:///opt/nextcloud_backup/node_modules/got/dist/source/core/index.js:684:31)
    at Request._onResponse (file:///opt/nextcloud_backup/node_modules/got/dist/source/core/index.js:743:24)
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (file:///opt/nextcloud_backup/node_modules/got/dist/source/core/index.js:761:23)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:628:26)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:525:35)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient (node:_http_client:693:27)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (node:_http_common:117:17)
    at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:534:22)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:324:12)
[2025-01-30 23:37:07] [error]: 	uncaughtException: This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). The promise rejected with the reason "Fail to upload snapshot to nextcloud (HTTPError: Response code 413 (Request Entity Too Large)) !".
UnhandledPromiseRejection: This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). The promise rejected with the reason "Fail to upload snapshot to nextcloud (HTTPError: Response code 413 (Request Entity Too Large)) !".

System information

Home Assistant Version : 2025.1.2
Home Assistant Supervisor Version : 2024.12.3
Nextcloud Version : 30.0.4
Addon version : 0.17.7

I don't know if its a nexcoud issue or an issue of this addon. But the error is on the addon side so i'm posting here i guess :D

Kind regards

[05k4rausdertonne]

could be due to cloudflare tho (see here #205)
my nextcloud uses cloudflare so maybe thats why it wont work with backups larger than 100MB

[TheCazz]

Hmm well I also use cloudflare free version and I try right now to upload a ISO image of virtio-wim and it is 510 MB with no problem,
so it feel strange that is the problem.

Until I know it if fix I use Samba Share and run att script that copy the files from backup folder and save it on another computer.

[05k4rausdertonne]

Nextcloud Client and Web probably uses chunking to mitigate the problem. @Sebclem has not implemented that yet (or rather hasn't released his implementation yet). I hope he will soon tho :)

[Sebclem]

Hello everyone, sorry for not being very active lately.

I will take this comment to explain what I was initially planing and why I'm currently thinking of changing the way I'll go with Nextcloud backups.

Initial plan
Has some have seen, since 2022, I was rebuilding from scratch this plugin to implement Typescript and a new frontend in VueJs. This new version had a lot of long asked feature like Chunked upload (to prevent 413 errors), multiple cron settings etc...
It was really near release during end of the year holidays, I was testing it on my personal instance for 2 mouth without major issue.

What happened in January 2025 ?
Home assistant 2025.1.
For those who don't know, HA 2025.1 added a lot of features for backup directly into HA (automatic backup, remote location etc...) So know a lot of the feature off this add-on is now directly into HA, the only thing missing is... the Nextcloud connector.

So what now ?
To be honest, I'm seriously thinking of building a Nextcloud backup component so that we can do backup to Nextcloud directly with the native backup tool of HA. Or even, why not a generic webdav component ?
One again, I'll be honest with you: I don't have much time lately. So this is not going to be any time soon unless I find time to do this.
And the other thing is that I'm not very confident, is my capacity to build test that are now needed for new component in HA, so I'll maybe need help for this part.

What if i want to test/use the rebuild of this plugin ?
You can, simply add this repository to your HA: https://github.com/Sebclem/sebclem-hassio-addon-repository#main
You'll see a new Nextcloud Backup add with a version like this: main.xxx

So tell me what you guy are thinking about all this.

PS: I'll probably do a new ticket with a copy paste of this and pin it