[mythtv-users] mythbuntu db backups

[Mark Perkins]

> On 30 Oct 2015, at 11:42 am, 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. 
> 
> _______________________________________________

Daryl I assume you mean 10 backups in a *folder* not *file*?

What is the location of that folder (containing the backups)?

What is the output of:
ls -al /etc/cron*
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