Hello,

On attempting:

scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects/* Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup

I receive the error message "Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory" fourteen times (one for each project) (MacOS).

BelaBackup is the name of the folder I have created for the backup.

Is there anything I can do besides downloading the files individually.

I would be grateful for your help.

venusexmachina changed the title to "No such file or directory" on attempting scp to backup files .

You are missing the forward slash before "Users".

By the way there is a button in the IDE to download all the projects, if that helps.

Hello Giulio,

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately this gives:
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
/Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory

    I finally got through using:
    scp -r ‘root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects*’ /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup

    Then I get the message:

    ‘root@192.168.7.2's password:
    Permission denied, please try again.

    Then I attempted it using the default password temppwd or blank but neither of them work.

    I can see you offered some suggestions here:
    https://github.com/BelaPlatform/bela-image-builder/issues/2

    ...but I can't get it to work.

      Solved - I eventually did this via the IDE. Still curious to know how to solve this issue.

      venusexmachina Then I attempted it using the default password temppwd or blank but neither of them work.

      there is no password for user root. If you are prompted for one, the username is misspelt.

      venusexmachina scp -r ‘root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects*’ /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup

      this fails because you are not using real quotes, but something else. Note the ‘ before root here:

      venusexmachina ‘root@192.168.7.2's password:

      so it actually thought that you were trying to log in as user ‘root, which doesn't exist.

      Now, one step back (before you added the quotes):

      venusexmachina Unfortunately this gives:
      /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
      /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory
      /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory

      This would have been with this command:

      scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects/* /Users/.../Downloads/BelaBackup

      First off, I assume you were not literally using ..., but you had your username in there and that it was correct. An incorrect username (or literally using the ...) would give you the error you got. I prefer to always use ~ instead of /Users/MYUSERNAME/, because it's more compact and less prone to errors, it works just the same on systems other than macos and you don't have to hide your username when pasting that command elsewhere. If you did put your username in there and it was correct, the next possible culprit down the list is that the BelaBackup folder didn't exist. Did you create it before running the scp command?

      Compare these two commands:

      #1
scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects ~/Downloads/BelaBackup
#2
scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects/* ~/Downloads/BelaBackup

      Command #1 copies the folder the Bela/projects/ to ~/Downloads/BelaBackup. As it copies a whole folder, the destination path does not need to exist: if it doesn't exist it will be created.
      Command #2, which is the equivalent of what you wrote above assuming you had the right thing in place of ..., instead copies all the files contained in the Bela/projects folder to ~/Downloads/BelaBackup. In this case, you are not copying a single folder, but several files (and/or folders, doesn't matter), so the destination folder BelaBackup needs to exist beforehand.

      One confusing thing about #1 is that it behaves differently depending on whether the destination folder exists or not. If the folder does not exist, you will end up with ~/Downloads/BelaBackup containing all the project folders:

      ~/Downloads/BelaBackup/myproject1
~/Downloads/BelaBackup/myproject2
~/Downloads/BelaBackup/myproject3

      however if it already exists, you will end up with the Bela/projects folder being copied into the destination, i.e.:

      ~/Downloads/BelaBackup/projects/
~/Downloads/BelaBackup/projects/myproject1
~/Downloads/BelaBackup/projects/myproject2
~/Downloads/BelaBackup/projects/myproject3
      • dws likes this.

              Thank you for your patience. I have tried all of the above (... was a typo but I had entered it correctly) but I still get:

              root@192.168.7.2's password:
              /root/Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory

              Somewhere deep in time, I changed the password to "a" using sudo passwd root. But it wasn't empty before.

              So I have now cleared the password by editing etc/shadow as shown here:
              https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/how-i-can-set-the-root-password-to-blank-655590/

              BelaBackup was created before this whole operation. I have tried every combination of commands and corrections you have suggested.

              Taking into account everything you have suggested, I am still getting the message:
              scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects ~/Downloads/BelaBackup
              /root/Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory

              I am worried that this issue is going to snowball for the next user of the board, but other than that I am happy to leave it here, since I solved it using the IDE. I will let you know if I find a solution. Thanks for your help.

                venusexmachina scp -r root@192.168.7.2:Bela/projects ~/Downloads/BelaBackup
                /root/Downloads/BelaBackup: No such file or directory

                why /root ? Are you running this as the root user? If not, what do you get when you run echo $HOME ?

                  I get:
                  root@bela:~# echo $HOME
                  /root

                  I was running it on the board instead of locally 😢 Problem solved.