[mythtv-users] Restore backup?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Stephen P. Villano
<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/5/14, 11:31 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> When I look at the GUI file system I can see five db backups for the
>>>> last five Sundays the size of which grows with each backup. As a
>>>> result of reading the recent backup thread I tried to restore a backup
>>>> through MCC, but the files don't present themselves. Am I right in
>>>> assuming that the permissions need modification? Or is there a better
>>>> way to restore, or confirm ability to restore through the terminal?
>>>> I'm running MythTV 0.27 fixes in an Ubuntu 12.04LTS environment.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and Happy New Year to all, Daryl
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>>> Depends on the backup. There are two different backups here.
>>>
>>> 1) Database Backups done by MythTV and/or the MythTV scripts
>>>
>>> 2) Backups done by Mythbuntu-bare (set up inside Mythbuntu-control-centre).
>>>
>>> Only #2 is restorable via MCC
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Thomas Mashos
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>>
>> Apparently I have both types of backups, from MythTV that I must have
>> set up some time ago, and others from Mythbuntu that I set up recently
>> in response to that thread. Is it necessary to actually perform the
>> restoration of a backup or is seeing it's 19.whatever MB size
>> confirmation enough thast I would have something to work with should I
>> need it?
>>
>> Daeyl
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>>
> I'm further curious, does MythTV backup verify its backup?
> Things can go weird during a backup, resulting in a corrupted backup.
> Hence, my question.
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I don't believe the MCC backup does any verification.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos