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

[jedi]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:58:59PM +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 20:53, Karl Newman wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
> ><mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
> >
> >    The reason I use mysqldump is because it allows me to backup or
> >    transfer between machines all my databases, not just mythconverg,
> >    in one simple command. Probably if I was about to do so for the first
> >    time now, knowing the recommendation, I'd use mythconverg_backup for
> >    just that one database, but given my mythconverg has been through
> >    the mysqldump process many times, including one time that swapped
> >    from MySQL to Maria without my realising, I don't imagine I'd gain much
> >    safety in moving to mythconverg_backup now.
> >
> >
> >Just because you haven't had any problems yet doesn't mean you should
> >assume you won't have any problems in the future... There could
> >conceivably be changes in myth in the future which could break your
> >backup scheme and you might not realize it until it was too late.

    That's an idea that sounds so assinine it's astounding.

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