[mythtv-users] DB Backup Issues

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Apr 23 10:39:45 UTC 2012


On 04/23/2012 06:22 AM, Chuck Peters wrote:
> I was about to upgrade my Ubuntu 10.04 Mythtv backend to .25 and manually
> running the mythconverg_backup.pl isn't working. The script says access
> denied, but I haven't changed the password and everything else appears to
> be working.  The frontends all work, and I had an old file saved from
> 2009-03-19 that shows the same mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose command
> working.  If I run the backup via mysqldump without the username and host
> parameters it seems to work fine.  I am running a bind server with a lan
> zone and the error message shows the hostname io.lan rather than the IP,
> could this be the cause?
>
> I would like to get this cleared up before I upgrade the Mythtv. Any
> suggestions?
>

First step I'd recommend is to verify your DB password/connection 
information in ~/.mythtv/backuprc .

Mike


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