On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Martin Moores <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moores.martin@gmail.com" target="_blank">moores.martin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">The wiki has some good info on this, and is what I used when setting a cronjob up to run this nightly:</div></div><div><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Quick_Start" target="_blank">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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Martin<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
Thanks for your help! After your suggestion, I realized I could run a -h and get the help options. DUH! Well, I started to setup a way to back this up regularly, then realized I should save the DB to other HDD storage. It turns out I have mounted /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups that points to my NAS box. So everytime I ran that script, it was creating a new backup in that folder. So problem solved! Thanks!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div>