[mythtv-users] Mythtv automatic database backup

[Don Brett]

On 11/24/2019 10:08 AM, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 24/11/2019 14:30, Don Brett wrote:
>> Does Mythtv do automatic database backups, or do I need to setup my 
>> own cron job?  Years ago, I thought it did it by itself.
>>
>> Don
>>
> The packaged versions of mythtv e.g. on Ubuntu should automatically do 
> a backup weekly, keeping the last 5 backups.
>
> Note there is a bug in mythtv 30 in that the backup fails.
>
> This has been fixed in mythtv master (31pre).
>
> If you want a weekly backup, replace the contents of file 
> /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database
>
> with the contents from 
> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/deb/debian/mythtv-database.cron.weekly
>
> Personally, I put the corrected mythtv-database file in 
> /etc/cron.daily/ for a daily backup.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
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I added the updated script to /etc/cron.daily.  It runs manually, but 
not sure how to get cron to run it on demand for a test.  I'm happy to 
wait until tomorrow to see the results.  By the way, it doesn't look 
like the script does the rotate feature, it that done somewhere else, or 
do I need to add something?

  Don