[mythtv-users] I am an idiot - deleted everything without DB backup - a question...

[John Drescher]

> Oh, and I have to get myself a backup command to automatically put a
> backup somewhere else on the network. That or don't do Myth rebuilds
> when I haven't had enough sleep....
>

I make a backup my mythtv database every night with a cron job:

# cat /etc/cron.daily/mythtv.cron
#! /bin/sh
mkdir -p /var/backup/mythtv
/usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv mythconverg | /bin/bzip2 -c >
/var/backup/mythtv/mythtv-`date +%F`.bz2

John