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Drakaen391

@mitu @Drakaen391 definitely. I have an image backup and I'm making a backup of the 4 folders now. I did notice that the config wouldn't copy over for the most part but that's the least of my worries.

as long as the roms and menus and save games are okay. it took FOREVER to get my turbocd section just perfect. well most of my rom sections really, it's been a year or so worth of tweaking things I don't think my brain could handle it if that got nuked.

from what I can tell it'll probably take about 24 hours total to copy everything over my network, and then pop it back on over the network. I wish there was a quicker way :(

so I'm guessing once 4.4 is in place that script should install without any issues. either that or I'm gonna end up in the looney bin.

wish me luck fellas

There is....

Once you do the initial start up, shutdown the pi and put the SD card back into your computer, and just copy it on the SD card....

I do that with my roms because the PSX are directly extracted from the actual disk, so its close to 16 GB of PSx games... over my network it would be 3 hours.... but with the SD plugged into the computer it is 15 minutes

mitu

@tobas That's up to the people that produced the script, ask them, maybe there's an alternative way.

Drakaen391

my guess is that something may have pulled the 4.4 retropie script and because it operates on stretch instead of jessie, it caused the error.

with the TurboCD, the image backup should have all the config files and such on it, so it would just be a matter of coping and pasting

tobas

@drakaen391 hm. interesting. but how would I know which folder the config files are in?

so when I burn the image, my sd splits into a 'boot' sector, and a'retropie' sector, so essentially, I can just drag and drop the folders into the 'retropie' part instead of over the network?

...hang on...does that also mean that there's no reason I should be copying my files from the retropie to my computer over the network to begin with?

tobas

@mitu they really haven't been much help.

https://github.com/RetroFlag/retroflag-picase

these are the files on the github. I suppose if I could just take these and pop them on the pi it would be easy, but I don't know if it's that simple

Drakaen391

@tobas yea....

So, there is a better (IMO) safe shutdown script....

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17258/modify-a-safe-shutdown-script/20

Try this one instead

tobas

@drakaen391 oh, I'm not sure what part of that is the script though :( there's so many posts and so many lines

tobas

@tobas hoo boy, yeah I don't understand a thing going on in that thread

Drakaen391

I'll try to redo it in a way to copy and paste

Regarding backup, the fastest way is always direct.

The config files will be located in /opt/retropie/configs

If you want to save your game lists, they are in /home/.emulationstation (its a hidden file)

tobas

@drakaen391 game lists, like favorites? that kind of thing?

Drakaen391

I don't think favorites, but all the scrapes will be saved

here is the shutdown script

follow these steps in order top to bottom
First we need to create a script

sudo nano /etc/killes.sh

then copy and paste the following script

#!/bin/bash

ESPID="$(pgrep -f "/opt/retropie/supplementary/.*/emulationstation([^.]|$)")"
if [ -n "$ESPID" ]; then
touch /tmp/es-shutdown && chown pi:pi /tmp/es-shutdown
kill "$ESPID"
while s=$(ps -p "$ESPID" -o s=) && [ "$s" ] && [ "$s" != 'Z' ]; do
sleep 1
done
fi

sleep 1

Next press ctrl-x and save it

Next Make it exacutable

chmod a+x /etc/killes.sh

next we will create the service script

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/killes.service

copy and paste the following

[Unit]
Description=Kill EmulationStation
After=autologin@tty1.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStop=/etc/killes.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now to wrap it all up and enable it

sudo systemctl enable killes

tobas

@drakaen391 ah I see. not sure how I can copy and paste those from inside the pi however

cyperghost

@drakaen391 This script is based on the ES-shutdown version 1.2
It won't work if there is an emulator currently running. I think I will repost a better script basis.

tobas

@drakaen391 scrapes meaning snaps, boxart etc? those are in the roms folders I thought? at least that's where they are on my SD

Drakaen391

@tobas it varies... the location I mentioned was the default location

Drakaen391

@cyperghost please do...

cyperghost

@drakaen391 I tag you in new post, too

tobas

@drakaen391 okay just checked (I'm monitoring the transfer from work XD) so the config folder holds the overall emulator/retroarch configs, and the individual emulator config files. no scrapes thank god.

message popped up that many files in that folder couldnt be copied without administrative permission, which I should have? but I'll deal with that folder last I guess, it's small so transferring it is fast if I can figure out how.

tobas

@tobas so the transfer looks like it got everything, config files included. I hope I can just drag and drop them back onto the card when I burn 4.4

tobas

@drakaen391 update for those interested,

4.4 worked perfectly. The Nespi downloaded the script and installed correctly. Now I'm putting back the contents of my backed up folders onto the freshly flashed SD over my network.

Hopefully this will result in an image exactly like I had with a shiny new 4.4 software package underneath.