[mythtv-users] find_orphans deleted everything!

[James Abernathy]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:29 AM Gary Raposo <gary at raposo.ca> wrote:

> On 2020-08-07 8:07 a.m., Bill Meek wrote:
> > On 8/7/20 5:21 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/7/20 1:41 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>>
> >>> Yes, and I don't have an answer. May be the use of BackendServerIP
> >>> that doesn't
> >>> exist on a fresh install. Rather, MasterServerIP. Try changing both
> >>> BackendServerIP
> >>> SQL to use the MasterServerIP.
> >
> >> I played with the script a little but I have two handicaps, (1.) I
> >> don't know mysql and (2.) I don't know python3.
> >>
> >> So I'm not going to be any help here.  So basically, I'm making a
> >> note on my system that find_orphan.py is not to be trusted.
> >>
> >> I don't imagine that I have a problem now and I'll be careful moving
> >> forward.
> >
> > Can you just edit the file and change both instances of BackendServerIP
> > to MasterServerIP?
> >
> > If that works, I'll try to get to it later today or over the weekend.
> >
> Back in May I was having some problems getting find_orphans.py to run on
> a freshly installed system (although not quite the same as what's being
> described here). The fix was to edit the code to change both instances
> of BackendServerIP to BackendServerAddr. Ran mythutil --clearcache for
> good measure as well.
>
> Has been running well since with no further issues.
>
> Gary
>
> So I just replaced the BackendServerIP with BackendServerAddr and run the
modified find_orphan.py.
It didn't find orphans, which it shouldn't have and it listed the current
backups of the databases.

jim at mythbuntu:~$ ./find_orphan.py
Database backups
  mythbuntu:
/mnt/md1/samba/public/Backups/MythTV_db_backup/mythconverg-1361-20200803053815.sql.gz
  3.9MB
  mythbuntu:
/mnt/md1/samba/public/Backups/MythTV_db_backup/mythconverg-1361-20200804053715.sql.gz
  4.3MB
  mythbuntu:
/mnt/md1/samba/public/Backups/MythTV_db_backup/mythconverg-1361-20200805053550.sql.gz
  4.3MB
  mythbuntu:
/mnt/md1/samba/public/Backups/MythTV_db_backup/mythconverg-1361-20200806053942.sql.gz
  4.4MB
  mythbuntu:
/mnt/md1/samba/public/Backups/MythTV_db_backup/mythconverg-1361-20200807053942.sql.gz
  4.7MB

      Total:      21.6MB
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So that fix seems to solve the problem,

Thanks. Jim A
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