[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

Larry K lunchtimelarry at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 16:35:44 EST 2005


Anyone care to post their scipt to back up/compress their database?    I
suppose I could write my own, but why reinvent the wheel? :)

On 12/1/05, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:34 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
> >    My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is backup
> the
> > SQL [currently every night, with a back-up file per day of the week;  if
> it's
> > going to start getting *really* big I'll have to drop that (it's
> bz-compressed)].
>
> I've been dumping my db to a bz2 compressed file every evening for
> around a year now and it's consistently been ~5.8M since then...
>
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