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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">On 12 January 2018 5:49:42 am Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy@outlook.com> wrote:</p>
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> Question on the cron job for db backup. Is this setup on install of mythtv? I have not created a cron job to do this. But there are a few backups in /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups and I have not run the backup manually yet. I just now ran:<br>
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl<br>
> It puts the backup in the directory that I specified in Storage Directories in setup. I just don't know if it's running automatically.<br>
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> Jim A<br>
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As I understand it, no the cron backup is not created automatically by mythtv. However when it does database upgrades it will try very hard to run a backup before doing the upgrade. That may be the few files you see.
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