[mythtv-users] REMINDER: Back Up Your Database.

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at MNSi.net
Wed Jan 1 23:20:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 23:54 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/30/2013 11:32 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt wrote:
> > I do have to admit that at one point, mythconverg_backup stopped 
> > working for me.  I had transitioned from packages to git, and somehow 
> > an outdated backup script got left in my path.  Of course I figured 
> > this out when I needed the backup.  Luckily the fs that hosted the 
> > database had been backed up... but..
> 
> Yes, an old mythconverg_backup.pl won't work with the new format of 
> config.xml (but a new mythconverg_backup.pl will work with either an old 
> or a new format config.xml).  Or, put another way, a current 
> mythconverg_backup.pl script will work with any version of MythTV ever 
> released.
> 
> So, as Andrew rightly indicates, anyone out there who's been using 
> MythTV for years (since before 0.25) should check to make sure their 
> backups are still working properly.
> 
> Note, too, that you can always explicitly specify all the database 
> connection details in ~/.mythtv/backuprc (as described in 
> mythconverg_backup.pl --help --help ).  The upside is that your backup 
> script will continue to work, regardless of changes to config.xml 
> (and/or our no longer using mysql.txt or whatever).  The downside is 
> that you have one more place to update when you change DB connection 
> information (i.e. changing the network configuration or whatever).
> 
> Mike

  Deciding to force a backup just in case, I found out that I no longer
have the mythconverg_backup.pl for 0.27.  Any ideas as to where this can
be dl'ed from?



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