[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:57:27 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/22/2014 08:23 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings Mythizens, I remember in previous setups having the 5 latest
> Db
> >>> backups kept in /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups. That's not happening now,
> I am
> >>> getting mythbuntu backups as a result of MCC, but they don't rotate, I
> go
> >>> in and cull once in a while. From looking at the wiki I have the backup
> >>> and
> >>> restore scripts in /usr/share/mythtv, and I echo'd the location I want
> the
> >>> backups to land in, my question is how do I set the frequency to daily
> and
> >>> select the time? IIRC this used to happen without a cron job.
> >>> Sort of related the box doesn't wakeup for Db backups or MFDB's is this
> >>> even possible?     TIA Daryl
> >>>
> >>
> >> The only automatic backups done by the backend are when the schema
> changes,
> >> or for most users, when they upgrade. (I'd like to know if I'm wrong
> about
> >> that.)
> >>
> >> Like the other replies, I too use a cron script. So, I'd run it manually
> >> and see what the output says. Probably like this:
> >>
> >>     sudo /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database
> >>
> >> but your path/name may be different, so if the above doesn't work, look
> >> for the right answer in /etc/cron*/*myth* . Don't just run any file you
> >> find, look at its contents to be sure it's doing a backup.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bill
> >>
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> >
> >OK, so now I do find weekly mythconverg backups in
> >/media/storage/mythtv/db_backups, I was certain that folder was empty last
> >time I checked but there are five backups in there a week apart. How do I
> >make these daily? And how do I make them go to
> >/media/storage2/mythtv/Dropbox?
>
> As I already posted, in Mythbuntu just copy (or move) the
> /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database script from there to /etc/cron.daily
>
Did this

> to make the backups daily.  And see my modified
> /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database script for how to add the --directory
> option for changing the directory it stores to.  I have both the daily
> and weekly backups, with the weekly ones going to the local hard
> drives and the daily ones going to another PC on my network.  If you
> have both daily and weekly backups, then they probably should be
> stored in different directories.
>

I want to see how changing the path in BE storage directories works for
this

>
> I took a look at the source code of mythconverg_backup.pl, and if the
> backup directory is not specified on the command line with the
> --directory option, and is not specified in the ~/.mythtv/backuprc
>

now both this file and storage directories point to the same place, I think
this will be good.
If a backup does not come through tonight I can call the script manually
tomorrow  and still be in good shape

file with the DBBackupDirectory option, then the script looks up the
> database and takes the directory from the "DB Backups" entry in the
> storagegroup table.  If there is no "DB Backups" entry in the
> storagegroup table, it then looks up the "Default" entries in the
> storagegroup table and uses the first of those which actually exists
> as a directory as where the backups will go.  The "Default" entries
>

I had forgotten that I used storage directories to point  to
/media/storage/mythtv/db_backups, my bad


are the storagegroups where you have specified your recordings are to
> be stored if you do not specify a specific storagegroup in your
> recording rules.
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Many thanks to all responders, very much appreciated   Daryl
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