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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/11/2019 18:47, Don Brett wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:f4c87b2d-0b23-8345-37d5-46a7ee1164f7@zoominternet.net">On
11/24/2019 10:08 AM, Mike Bibbings wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 24/11/2019 14:30, Don Brett wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Does Mythtv do automatic database
backups, or do I need to setup my own cron job? Years ago, I
thought it did it by itself.
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Don
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The packaged versions of mythtv e.g. on Ubuntu should
automatically do a backup weekly, keeping the last 5 backups.
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Note there is a bug in mythtv 30 in that the backup fails.
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This has been fixed in mythtv master (31pre).
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If you want a weekly backup, replace the contents of file
/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database
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with the contents from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/deb/debian/mythtv-database.cron.weekly">https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/deb/debian/mythtv-database.cron.weekly</a><br>
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Personally, I put the corrected mythtv-database file in
/etc/cron.daily/ for a daily backup.
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Mike
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I added the updated script to /etc/cron.daily. It runs manually,
but not sure how to get cron to run it on demand for a test. I'm
happy to wait until tomorrow to see the results. By the way, it
doesn't look like the script does the rotate feature, it that done
somewhere else, or do I need to add something?
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Don
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<p>The mythtv-database script calls
/usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl which has a built-in
default of 5 for backups to keep.</p>
<p>To test manually, this will force all cron.daily jobs to be run:</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(230, 230,
230); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">sudo
run-parts /etc/cron.daily</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(230, 230,
230); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">and check
that a new database backup has been created.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(230, 230,
230); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(230, 230,
230); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Mike<br>
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<p>sudo anacron -n -d -f<br>
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