[mythtv-users] Restore backup?

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 18:17:43 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2014 12:21 AM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> MythTV never does backups of the database, except it will attempt a backup
> before a database upgrade (which only happens when you install a new version
> of MythTV).  If the automatic, pre-upgrade backup fails, it will tell
> you--which means if you're doing a proper upgrade and have started
> mythtv-setup to let it do the upgrade, you will be notified with a dialog on
> screen; but if you start mythbackend on the master backend host and let it
> do the upgrade, you will be notified in a log message (meaning it's useless
> to you because you won't have time to back up the database yourself before
> it starts changing things).
>
> So, normally, the mythconverg_backup.pl script is only run when the user
> runs it, and it reports the results as an exit code , which the user must
> verify.  So, if using a script to do the backup, have it check for a zero
> exit code (meaning no errors), or if running interactively, make sure you
> don't see any error messages in the console.
>
> Mike
>
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I'm confused, if MythTV never does backups why do I have five
db-backups in a sub directory of the MythTV directory? Prior to Jan
5th they were from the five Sundays in December, now four Dec. and one
Jan.
At this point I haven't restored any backups, and I'm still wondering
if I need to, to verify their utility?
Do I remember correctly that the BE must be shut down to restore a backup?

Thanks Daryl


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