Starter problem

kurt

@in_a_days
Thank’s a lot for your help, but strawberry allready repaired my mistakes, so by now i’m fine, just thinking about what is the best way to save such a running system, so I can go back when things go wrong and I found out things go very quick wrong :)
So have a nice day and Thank you

yawns

@kurt
I would create an archive of the entire magicmirror folder.

cd ~
tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

kurt

@yawns
this is on the Raspi and on which place will he make the archiv ?
And to save it outside the best way is? I#m using Filzilla is this a right tool for this plan?
Thanks

yawns

@kurt
This command will create a file called mirror.tar in your home directory on your raspberry. You can copy/transfer it to your computer with filezilla, the same way you did to copy new files to your raspberry

kurt

@yawns
perfekt
thank you, I better bring my sheeps to a save place :)

kurt

@yawns
Sorry didn’t happen,
he refused “cowardly or yellow” this is the translation I found, to create an empty archiv.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror
tar: Anlegen eines leeren Archivs wird feige verweigert.
„tar --help“ oder „tar --usage“ gibt weitere Informationen.

in_a_days

@kurt

Two things -

You’re in the MagicMirror directory. Type this:

cd ~

You need a space here:

tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror

should be

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

kurt

@in_a_days
sorry but if I write just

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~

nothing happens

in_a_days

@kurt

That’s okay! You’re in the right folder now :)

In the previous post your command prompt looked like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

Which shows you in the MagicMirror directory. But if your command prompt now looks like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Then you are back in the correct ‘~’ folder and you can proceed to step 2.

kurt

@in_a_days said in Starter problem:

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

this is what I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror
tar: Entferne führende „/“ von Elementnamen
tar: /MagicMirror: Funktion stat fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler

What do you think?
Thank you