[mythtv-users] REMINDER: Back Up Your Database.

[Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt]

On 30/12/13 10:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Every night.
>
> My personal recommendation, to avoid WAF crashes like the on another poster
> is impaled on, is to run the mythconverg_backup.pl script from cron every day
> at 4am, and then *copy the created backup file to every spinning drive you
> have installed on your machine*.  That way, if you ever have to restorr, you
> have 3, 4, (5, 6, 7... :-) chances to have a good copy, and you don't care
> which drives might not be mounted at the time.
>
> Make it your New Year's Resolution.  Go check now: do you have a current
> backup of your DB?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
In my case, it runs at 0245 hrs, at 0300 hrs gets picked up by the 
system incremental backup, and 0430 gets an additional copy rsync'd to 
another machine.

Been where the other poster has been :-)