<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2012 16:12, Jim Oltman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.oltman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.oltman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm reading the Release Notes for 0.26, and while I will wait a while to upgrade, I am curious about the DB backup procedure. The notes say to run:<div><br></div><div>/usr/share/mythtv/<a href="http://mythconverg_backup.pl" target="_blank">mythconverg_backup.pl</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>as the user that will be performing the upgrade. On MythBuntu 12.04, I believe that will be my user. I am SSH'd into the backend, when I run that command, the command looks to go through. It takes one or 2 seconds for me to get back to a prompt, however, there's no output. Where should I be looking for the DB backup? Thanks!<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>The wiki has some good info on this, and is what I used when setting a cronjob up to run this nightly:<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Quick_Start">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Quick_Start</a><br>
<br>You basically run the following command to set the backup location:<br><br>echo "DBBackupDirectory=/home/mythtv" > ~/.mythtv/backuprc<br><br>"/home/mythtv" being the backup directory <br><br>That command sets the backup path permentantly, if you just want it as a one off, then run the script with "--directory"<br>
</div></div><br>I run mine with "--rotate 14" to keep the last 14 copies of the database<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Martin<br>