[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[Robert]

On Wed, April 2, 2008 3:06 pm, John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:57 AM, David Segall <david at segall.net> wrote:
>> Yesterday I thought I might have lost all my MythTV data. Fortunately,
>>  the fix was simple but it made me wonder how I could protect my set up
>>  from catastrophic failure.
>>
>>  Operating a redundant fall back computer seems like overkill for this
>>  application but I don't see any other solution to ensuring that MythTV
>>  satisfies the SOAF [1] factor.
>>
>>  How do you ensure that your fried MythTV can be restored in time for
>> the
>>  nightly news and you have not lost the latest episode of the unmissable
>>  series that screened last night when you were out?
>>
> I have the os disks on raid 5 (although I am eventually going to
> remove that so I can spin down the disks to save power). And I have a
> cron job that makes a backup of the mysql database each night to yet
> another disk (not part of the raid). Every once and a while I email
> myself that file to my 6.5GB gmail account.
>
> John

Now thats a good use of a gmail account!  I like that idea.  It's not
particularly private or sensitive data, and you get an offsite backup...

I too have a cron job that backs up my DB in case of corruption.  I should
probably arrange to copy it off-server as well in case the disk fails. 
But in that case I'm screwed anyway as I don't have any kind of RAID setup
so no database would be the least of my worries!

Robert.