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

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On 31/12/2013 4:38 p.m., 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

Great idea.
{Smugly thinks to self I don't need to....}
Hmmm, mine hasn't run for a good three months now....!!!
Anyone else?!
In anticipation of the advice, and avoiding risks of impalation best I 
sort out why!
Thanks indeed for the post jra