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

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:42 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> [deletia]
>

I'm sure you meant "asinine". Thanks for the compliment, by the way. It may
be unlikely for a change in Myth to break a database backup method, but
it's not inconceivable. I guess a change to mysqldump may be more likely to
break it.
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