[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[John Drescher]

>  I don't care much about losing the video files because, as you say,
>  it's just TV, and most stuff will eventually be re-run.  This thread
>  reminds me that I really ought to back up the database, though; I have
>  quite a pile of recording rules and they'd take a while to recreate.
>

I have this as a cron job that runs daily.

 # 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