[mythtv-users] Restore backup?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/5/14, 11:31 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When I look at the GUI file system I can see five db backups for the
>>> last five Sundays the size of which grows with each backup. As a
>>> result of reading the recent backup thread I tried to restore a backup
>>> through MCC, but the files don't present themselves. Am I right in
>>> assuming that the permissions need modification? Or is there a better
>>> way to restore, or confirm ability to restore through the terminal?
>>> I'm running MythTV 0.27 fixes in an Ubuntu 12.04LTS environment.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and Happy New Year to all, Daryl
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>> Depends on the backup. There are two different backups here.
>>
>> 1) Database Backups done by MythTV and/or the MythTV scripts
>>
>> 2) Backups done by Mythbuntu-bare (set up inside Mythbuntu-control-centre).
>>
>> Only #2 is restorable via MCC
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas Mashos
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>
> Apparently I have both types of backups, from MythTV that I must have
> set up some time ago, and others from Mythbuntu that I set up recently
> in response to that thread. Is it necessary to actually perform the
> restoration of a backup or is seeing it's 19.whatever MB size
> confirmation enough thast I would have something to work with should I
> need it?
>
> Daeyl
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>
I'm further curious, does MythTV backup verify its backup?
Things can go weird during a backup, resulting in a corrupted backup.
Hence, my question.