File Copy in Node Red (HA Monitoring)

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I am trying to copy the ‘home-assistant.log’ file to another file called ‘home-assistant-crash.log’ using node-red-contrib-fs-ops or this way Node-red automations on Github? link has many flows I have done the HA monitoring flow.

My HA and Node Red are in Dockers. (NOT Hassio)

The problem I am having is the file path is not correct. It keeps given me errors. i have made the
‘home-assistant-crash.log’ file with all permissions 777.

Any help please.:worried:

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/home/cameron doesn’t exist INSIDE the container. You need to bind mount a volume to your node-red docker. You can use the same mount/path as the settings/config if this is one file

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Thanks for the quick response I am using docker-compose.
So if I do this in my node-red and add in a extra volume. Then my path will be ‘ha_config’?

   volumes:
      - ${USERDIR}/docker/node_red:/data
      - ${USERDIR}/homeassistant:/ha_config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
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Yeah, you need to mount that home assistant directory so that node-red can see the log file. If you use that bind mount, your path will be /ha_config since that command is telling the container to mount it in the root volume at the path /ha_config

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That worked perfectly

Thank You.:smiley:

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