[mythtv-users] Cleaning up old records

Fred Clausen fred at derf.nl
Tue Jun 12 11:18:52 UTC 2007


Hi,

Craig Fry wrote:
> I'd like to clean up my mythconverg database.  I've been running this 
> thing for years upon years and it's getting huge.  I'd like to clean out 
> all the records more then a year old.  Does anyone have a script or 
> solution?  Thanks

If you don't already you may want to run

/usr/share/doc/mythtv-<VER>/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl

as I believe this could potentially decrease the space usage. Your 
tables are probably quite fragmented and so use up more space than is 
actually required.

Regards,

Fred.


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