[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Monday, November 24, 2014, 5:57:52 AM, you wrote:





> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
>  

>  Monday, November 24, 2014, 1:08:36 AM, you wrote:
>  
>  
 >> On Nov 23, 2014 6:18 PM, "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
 >>>
 >>> On 11/23/2014 04:59 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>> I copied the script in cron.weekly into cron.daily, chmod'd it and ran
 >>>> "sudo /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database" and the backup went to the location
 >>>> indicated by BE storage directories. Will this now happen automagically
 >>>> every day? and rotate to keep the latest five?
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> It will work the same way as it did when run from the command line.
 >>>
 >>> Note you mentioned that you *copied* the script from weekly to daily.
 >>> That means that once a week, it will run twice. You most likely want
 >>> to remove the weekly version. Also, your distribution is likely to
 >>> put the weekly version back if it's version changes or perhaps during
 >>> an upgrade. Nothing wrong, just be aware if it.
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> --
 >>> Bill
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 >> I gksudo gedited it into the cron.daily, copy and paste from
 >> clipboard and commented out each line in
 >> cron.weekly/mythtv-database. This should survive an upgrade without
 >> renewing or removing the #'s, right?
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> The best way is to even subtly changing the name. But Bill didn't mean
>  that the new job would get removed. He meant that on any upgrade the
>  old weekly job would get reinserted. That's why I love Gentoo, It
>  asks more in knowing what you do, but it also doesn't try to think
>  for you, without asking! It suggests, but always asks!
>  
>  Tot mails,
>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>  


> Understood, but (here in Ubuntu) if the original
> cron.weekly/mythtv-database remains in place (commented out) and
> that same script is created in cron.daily/mythtv-database, then
> upgrades would see no void to fill, correct? problem averted, yes.

Possibly. I don't know the mythbuntu/ubuntu upgrade strategy. In
Gentoo you would be right.


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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