<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:57:27 -0500, you wrote:<br>
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>On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bill Meek <<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com">keemllib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On 11/22/2014 08:23 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Greetings Mythizens, I remember in previous setups having the 5 latest Db<br>
>>> backups kept in /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups. That's not happening now, I am<br>
>>> getting mythbuntu backups as a result of MCC, but they don't rotate, I go<br>
>>> in and cull once in a while. From looking at the wiki I have the backup<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> restore scripts in /usr/share/mythtv, and I echo'd the location I want the<br>
>>> backups to land in, my question is how do I set the frequency to daily and<br>
>>> select the time? IIRC this used to happen without a cron job.<br>
>>> Sort of related the box doesn't wakeup for Db backups or MFDB's is this<br>
>>> even possible? TIA Daryl<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> The only automatic backups done by the backend are when the schema changes,<br>
>> or for most users, when they upgrade. (I'd like to know if I'm wrong about<br>
>> that.)<br>
>><br>
>> Like the other replies, I too use a cron script. So, I'd run it manually<br>
>> and see what the output says. Probably like this:<br>
>><br>
>> sudo /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database<br>
>><br>
>> but your path/name may be different, so if the above doesn't work, look<br>
>> for the right answer in /etc/cron*/*myth* . Don't just run any file you<br>
>> find, look at its contents to be sure it's doing a backup.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Bill<br>
>><br>
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>OK, so now I do find weekly mythconverg backups in<br>
>/media/storage/mythtv/db_backups, I was certain that folder was empty last<br>
>time I checked but there are five backups in there a week apart. How do I<br>
>make these daily? And how do I make them go to<br>
>/media/storage2/mythtv/Dropbox?<br>
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</div></div>As I already posted, in Mythbuntu just copy (or move) the<br>
/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database script from there to /etc/cron.daily<br></blockquote><div>Did this </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
to make the backups daily. And see my modified<br>
/etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database script for how to add the --directory<br>
option for changing the directory it stores to. I have both the daily<br>
and weekly backups, with the weekly ones going to the local hard<br>
drives and the daily ones going to another PC on my network. If you<br>
have both daily and weekly backups, then they probably should be<br>
stored in different directories.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I want to see how changing the path in BE storage directories works for this </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I took a look at the source code of <a href="http://mythconverg_backup.pl" target="_blank">mythconverg_backup.pl</a>, and if the<br>
backup directory is not specified on the command line with the<br>
--directory option, and is not specified in the ~/.mythtv/backuprc<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>now both this file and storage directories point to the same place, I think this will be good.</div><div>If a backup does not come through tonight I can call the script manually tomorrow and still be in good shape</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
file with the DBBackupDirectory option, then the script looks up the<br>
database and takes the directory from the "DB Backups" entry in the<br>
storagegroup table. If there is no "DB Backups" entry in the<br>
storagegroup table, it then looks up the "Default" entries in the<br>
storagegroup table and uses the first of those which actually exists<br>
as a directory as where the backups will go. The "Default" entries<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had forgotten that I used storage directories to point to /media/storage/mythtv/db_backups, my bad</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
are the storagegroups where you have specified your recordings are to<br>
be stored if you do not specify a specific storagegroup in your<br>
recording rules.<br>
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