FIX FOR MAKING AUTO_BACKUP PLUGIN WORK!

[qkum]

The Readme/guide/tutorial is outdated.

Don't waste time copy-pasting the code in and think it will work after.

You need to tinker with it yourself to make it work after they changed to using the .toml format without updating the readme file.

It seems you need to add pretty much the same lines of code though but change them so they look like the rest of the code in the config.yml file.

[qkum]

Ok, I found out what the changes are.

1# Here is the UPDATED code you need to add to /root/etc/pwnagotchi/config.toml to make the auto_backup plugin work:

main.plugins.auto_backup.enabled = true
main.plugins.auto_backup.interval = 1 # Every X Days
main.plugins.auto_backup.max_tries = 10
main.plugins.auto_backup.files = [
"/root/brain.nn",
"/root/brain.json",
"/root/.api-report.json",
"/root/handshakes/",
"/root/peers/",
"/etc/pwnagotchi/",
"/var/log/pwnagotchi.log"]
main.plugins.auto_backup.commands = "tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup.tar.gz {files}"

This is how it should look like after:

2# Here is the line of code you need to change to where YOU put YOUR "pwnagotchi-plugins-contrib" unzipped folder/directory. This will make Pwnagotchi load ALL the custom plugins you got in that folder automatically. But you need to set the settings for every plugin manually in the config file just as we just did with the auto_backup plugin. No Settings = no working plugin even if it is loaded

Use this command in terminal to Manually back up:
sudo tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup.tar.gz {files}

It creates a backup file called "pwnagotchi-backup.tar.gz" in the "/root/" directory. (1# sudo -i #2 ls )
Just like it will do automatically if the plugin is enabled.
It will print an error but still creates the backup file.
It over-writes the old backup file every time it backs up.

Have fun and enjoy :)

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[MaddoScientisto]

For whoever will stumble on this page and be confused like me on why it's not working:
the main.plugins.auto_backup.commands = "tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup.tar.gz {files}"
is wrong and should be an array
it should look like this:

main.plugins.auto_backup.commands = [ 
 "tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup.tar.gz {files}"
]

[Travid]

Sorry to wake up this thread, but thanks Maddo!
Also, I've added a date string to it so I can have more than one day's backup.

main.plugins.auto_backup.commands = [ 
"tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup$(date +%d-%m-%Y).tar.gz {files}"
]

[MaddoScientisto]

Sorry to wake up this thread, but thanks Maddo! Also, I've added a date string to it so I can have more than one day's backup.

main.plugins.auto_backup.commands = [ 
"tar czf /root/pwnagotchi-backup$(date +%d-%m-%Y).tar.gz {files}"
]

I actually did that myself but forgot to post it, woops