On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David Segall <<a href="mailto:david@segall.net">david@segall.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I recently posted on the subject of MythTV backup<br>
<<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/327389#327389" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/327389#327389</a>> and<br>
received responses advocating everything from enterprise level backup<br>
and servers to "it's only TV". I found the former too expensive and the<br>
latter barely credible from anyone who expends the effort maintaining a<br>
MythTV system and following this mailing list.<br>
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The backup of operating system and database data is assumed and well<br>
covered in the MythTV Wiki. I want to ensure that my backup also<br>
includes recorded TV to the extent I can afford. I would like a script<br>
that copies the recorded TV using the available backup space and<br>
following exactly the same rules as my MythTV setup would use if it had<br>
the same amount of space. That implies that if a program has been<br>
deleted it would also be deleted from the backup. I would probably also<br>
want to exclude some news programs that I only record in case something<br>
interesting happens.<br>
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I would be interested in your opinions. For example, would you change<br>
MythTV's expiry rules if you had substantially more, or less, disk space?<br>
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David<br>
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_______________________________________________<br></font></blockquote><div><br>Look at rsync. You could set up a cron job to sync the two folders/drives every hour or two. <br><br>Mitchell<br> </div></div>