[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate

[Mark Perkins]

> On 25 Nov 2014, at 1:17 am, "Daryl McDonald" <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
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>> 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?

No, usually fixes 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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