[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Mike Holden <mythtv at mikeholden.org> wrote:

> Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > My recommendation, in fact, is to keep the original local weekly
> > backup running, alongside the daily Dropbox backup.  Backups to
> > local
> > drives are much less likely to go wrong for strange reasons than
> > ones
> > that rely on network connections and hardware you do not control.
>
> A Dropbox folder is likely local to begin with, and then sent out to
> the cloud by Dropbox in the background. That's the way mine works -
> a local filesystem, /dropbox, contains a bunch of directories,
> /dropbox/user1, /dropbox/user2 etc., which is the local repository
> for dropbox for those users, Dropbox then takes care of spinning
> that data out to the cloud afterwards.
>
> The suggestion to check your backups, of course, is a piece of
> advice that always bears repeating! Indeed, we ought to be testing
> them via a restore every now and then, to a fresh system, just to
> make sure they are usable backups and not just a useless bunch of
> bytes on a disk!
> --
> Mike Holden
>
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for clarification, let me say my system is a Mythtv on Ubuntu 14.04
desktop. I used MCC because initially the GUI was easier for me to
navigate/understand. The more I read the wikis and this list the broader my
understanding becomes and the more I lean toward command line. Is using MCC
with a Mythtv system known to cause problems? Thanks again for all the
advice, I will definitely keep an eye on the backups. Do you all have test
system on separate machines somewhere else to check restoring a backup, or
can that be done on a partition of one of my drives on this system?  Daryl
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