Starter problem

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

in_a_days

@kurt

I apologize, I have not used the tar command before. Remove the ‘/’ before MagicMirror. Try:

tar -cvf mirror.tar MagicMirror

kurt

@in_a_days
Thank you everything went qicker than the eye…
what is the name of the file, it should be outside of the MM file in the pi file?

in_a_days

@kurt

Great! I’m still very new to this and I’m not using FTP. But there should now be a file named ‘mirror.tar’ in your ‘pi’ directory.

kurt

@in_a_days
seems to be well hidden, wherever it is…hmm
couldn’t find it

in_a_days

@kurt

From the ~ folder:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

type

ls

Do you see the mirror.tar file listed there?

kurt

@in_a_days
here we are :)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls
Bilder     Dokumente    mirror.tar  npm-debug.log  python_games  Videos
Desktop    Downloads    Music       oldconffiles   Scratch
Documents  MagicMirror  Musik       Public         Templates

but isn’t shown in Filezilla directory
should be in Bilder Dokumente mirror.tar ? right?
the path is not quite clear for me

not that easy…Thanks a lot for your time in_a_days

in_a_days

@kurt

Happy to help! Unfortunately, this is where my knowledge ends. I’m not sure what folders you can see over Filezilla. But again make sure you are in the ~ directory and try this:

cp mirror.tar Dokumente

If you can access that Dokumente folder in Filezilla, you should now see the mirror.tar file.

broberg

@kurt

no, Bilder and Dokumente is two different folders,

either it’s the first directory you get to when connecting with ftp
OR
it is in /home/pi/

kurt

@in_a_days and @broberg

Thank you, not that easy to find the lost sheeps
the file was in:

/home/pi/Dokumente

but Filezilla didn’t show the file from the start, also I refreshed…

So Thanks a lot for your quick help!
Kurt

kurt

@yawns
Hi yawns
I hope you can help me, couse I managed to crash my whole MM system so I’m back on the start again. But this time I can’t even put my MM to my Raspberry. Shame on me but that’s how it is.
I’m working by ssh and Filezilla, have on my pi a Folder in /tmp/magic
but when I try to do

scp -r /kurt/Admin/Downloads/MagicMirror-master 
pi@rasbpi:/tmp/magic

I get this

pi@raspi:~ $ scp -r /kurt/Admin/Downloads/MagicMirror-master 
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2
pi@raspi:~ $ pi@raspi:/tmp/magic
-bash: pi@raspi:/tmp/magic: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
pi@raspi:~ $

Thanks a lot in advance
kurt

bhepler

@kurt Your scp command didn’t go through. At a guess, you attempted to scp the entire directory and not the individual file(s). Try this instead: scp -r /kurt/Admin/Downloads/MagicMirror-master/mirror.tar