[mythtv-users] Automatic Database Backup Files

[Mike Bibbings]

On 18/04/2020 17:27, Jay Foster wrote:
> I noticed that MythTV is automatically backing up the database into 
> mythconverg-1344-<date>.sql.gz files.  There are two sets of these 
> files.  A daily backup set in $HOME/mythtv and a weekly set in the 
> recording directory.
>
> I seem to remember setting up the daily backup years ago, but not the 
> weekly one.  The weekly one is redundant and writing to the recording 
> drive, which I do not want.  How can I get stop the weekly backup in 
> the recording directory?
>
> Jay
>
> _______________________________________________ 


For Ubuntu based systems when mythtv is installed a weekly backup is 
automatically setup in /etc/cron.weekly/

Just remove the file /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database

Personally I just move the file to /etc/cron.daily/  to give me a daily 
backup and use backuprc to specify how many backups to keep and where to 
store the backups.


Mike