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On Nov 23, 2014 6:18 PM, "Bill Meek" <<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com">keemllib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 11/23/2014 04:59 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:<br>
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>> I copied the script in cron.weekly into cron.daily, chmod'd it and ran<br>
>> "sudo /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database" and the backup went to the location<br>
>> indicated by BE storage directories. Will this now happen automagically<br>
>> every day? and rotate to keep the latest five?<br>
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> It will work the same way as it did when run from the command line.<br>
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> Note you mentioned that you *copied* the script from weekly to daily.<br>
> That means that once a week, it will run twice. You most likely want<br>
> to remove the weekly version. Also, your distribution is likely to<br>
> put the weekly version back if it's version changes or perhaps during<br>
> an upgrade. Nothing wrong, just be aware if it.<br>
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> -- <br>
> Bill<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I gksudo gedited it into the cron.daily, copy and paste from clipboard and commented out each line in cron.weekly/mythtv-database. This should survive an upgrade without renewing or removing the #'s, right?<br>
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