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

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue Dec 31 05:30:54 UTC 2013


Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> 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?
>>
>
>My DB backup have saved me many many times.  Examples, disk fills up my
>DB
>got corrupted had to restore, channel scans didn't work had to restore,
>root hard drive dying had to restore. Backup backup backup! In addition
>to
>the mysql backups, I am also experimenting with btrfs mirroring/raid1
>the
>root filesystem to another hard drive.  I have at least one drive going
>bad
>on me every year.  Also always backup before mucking with OS upgrades,
>Myth
>upgrades, and also had editing the DB.

Yeah, os update was what I was doing. I did backup - just didn't think 
to check the backup had worked.
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