[mythtv-users] mythbuntu db backups

Fri Oct 30 03:22:15 UTC 2015

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 6:11 PM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:48:22 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >Greetings Mythizens, in a manual housekeeping effort I've discovered a
>>> file
>>> >with ten recent mythbuntu db backups in it, I don't use Mythbuntu
>>> Control
>>> >Center any more so these are dead weight. Can anyone offer a suggestion
>>> on
>>> >stopping this log rotate process cleanly, I imagine deleting the target
>>> >file would cause subterranean problems at some point. I'm quite happy
>>> with
>>> >the Mythconverg backups and I'm running mythtv 0.27 fixes in a Ubuntu
>>> 14.04
>>> >desktop environment.  Grazie.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, the only backup rotation is done by the backup
>>> script:
>>>
>>>   /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl
>>>
>>> which is called from:
>>>
>>>   /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database
>>>
>>
>> Yes I have Mythconverg running with a five backup logrotate
>>
>>>
>>> All it does is to do individual backups to files with the date in the
>>> name, and then delete the oldest when it does a new backup and there
>>> are too many backups already present in the destination directory.
>>>
>>> There is no software I know of in Mythbuntu 14.04 that will create a
>>> file that has multiple backups in it.
>>>
>>
>> Previously I used MCC to generate "Mythbuntu backups, not Mythconverg
>> backups
>>
>>>
>>> The standard place the backups are put is:
>>>
>>>   /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/
>>>
>>
>> and they are translocated, my  bad
>>
>>>
>>> If they are anywhere else, it is something you have done.  I have set
>>> up daily backups to a network drive, and moved my normal weekly
>>> backups to a different drive on my backend.
>>>
>>> Exactly how are the multiple backups stored in the file you found? Are
>>> they compressed in some form of archive file?  What is the timestamp
>>> on the file?  Making backups, or archiving them, takes a while, so you
>>> may be able to find out what is doing it by being around at the time
>>> that file is altered, and getting a full process list, and seeing what
>>> is actually creating the file:
>>>
>>
>> Yes compressed and one for each of the last ten days
>>
>>>
>>>   ps -ef >processes.txt
>>>
>>> If it is happening at a bad time of day, you can schedule that command
>>> to happen.
>>
>>
>> Timing is not the issue I just want to eradicate the process creating
>> them because the Mythconverg backups are sufficient and the Mythbuntu
>> unnecessary.
>>
>>
>>
>>> To do that, I use a little script called sleepuntil that I
>>> found on the net.  I have it in /usr/local/bin:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> set -o nounset
>>>
>>> ### // Sleep until some date/time.
>>> # // Example: sleepuntil 15:57; kdialog --msgbox "Backup needs to be
>>> done."
>>>
>>>
>>> error() {
>>>   echo "$@" >&2
>>>   exit 1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> NAME_PROGRAM=$(basename "$0")
>>>
>>> if [[ $# != 1 ]]; then
>>>      error "ERROR: program \"$NAME_PROGRAM\" needs 1 parameter and it
>>> has received: $#."
>>> fi
>>>
>>>
>>> CURRENT=$(date +%s)
>>> TARGET=$(date -d "$1" +%s)
>>>
>>> SECONDS=$(($TARGET - $CURRENT))
>>>
>>> if [[ $SECONDS < 0 ]]; then
>>>      error "You need to specify in a different way the moment in which
>>> this program has to finish, probably indicating the day and the hour
>>> like in this example: $NAME_PROGRAM \"2009/12/30 10:57\"."
>>> fi
>>>
>>> sleep "$SECONDS"
>>>
>>> # // End of file
>>>
>>>
>>> So you would do a command like:
>>>
>>> sleepuntil 03:00; ps -ef >processes.txt
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>>
>> I'd rather not reinstall MCC just to stop that process if there is a
>> command line solution.
>>
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> There is a way to disable it. I'm not home right now, but look in the cron
> directories for a Mythbuntu backup file. If I had to guess,
> /etc/cron.d/mythbuntu-backup
>
> You should be able to safely delete that file.
> --
> Thomas Mashos
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Thanks Thomas, nothing in the supposed file, and a quick locate for
Mythbyntu shows:
 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/backend.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/plugin.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-34.pyc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/__pycache__/backend.cpython-34.pyc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-34.pyc

some other instances also these seemed most likely though, a lot of
Mythbuntu theme and classic etc, but no backup.
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