[mythtv] mythfilldatabase failed and also destroyed by schedule!

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 07 June 2004 12:11 pm, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> > I'm running 0.15.1 and mythfilldatabase failed last night.  In the
> > process it also destroyed today's program data.  From the status page,
> > it says:
> >
> > Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2004-06-06 04:08 and ended on
> > 2004-06-= 06 04:08. mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert any new data
> > into the Gu= ide. This can indicate a potential grabber failure.
> > There's guide data until 2004-06-17 06:00 (11 days).
> > DataDirect Status: Your subscription expires on 08/23/04 19:12:32
> >
> > My EPG has no data it in for today..  So it missed some programs I had
> > scheduled this morning. :(
> >
> > If it fails to grab data why did it destroy my schedules?
>
> This is unfortunately the default behaviour of mythfilldatabase, it
> wipes the existing data for the day it has just downloaded then
> inserts the new data.

It's only the default behavior for the native DataDirect grabber.  The xmltv 
grabber will only clear data if it has data for that day and channel.

Isaac