[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate
Daryl McDonald
darylangela at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 04:57:52 UTC 2014
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Monday, November 24, 2014, 1:08:36 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> > On Nov 23, 2014 6:18 PM, "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/23/2014 04:59 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I copied the script in cron.weekly into cron.daily, chmod'd it and ran
> >>> "sudo /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database" and the backup went to the
> location
> >>> indicated by BE storage directories. Will this now happen automagically
> >>> every day? and rotate to keep the latest five?
> >>
> >>
> >> It will work the same way as it did when run from the command line.
> >>
> >> Note you mentioned that you *copied* the script from weekly to daily.
> >> That means that once a week, it will run twice. You most likely want
> >> to remove the weekly version. Also, your distribution is likely to
> >> put the weekly version back if it's version changes or perhaps during
> >> an upgrade. Nothing wrong, just be aware if it.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bill
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> > I gksudo gedited it into the cron.daily, copy and paste from
> > clipboard and commented out each line in
> > cron.weekly/mythtv-database. This should survive an upgrade without
> > renewing or removing the #'s, right?
>
>
>
> The best way is to even subtly changing the name. But Bill didn't mean
> that the new job would get removed. He meant that on any upgrade the
> old weekly job would get reinserted. That's why I love Gentoo, It
> asks more in knowing what you do, but it also doesn't try to think
> for you, without asking! It suggests, but always asks!
>
> Tot mails,
> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
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Understood, but (here in Ubuntu) if the original
cron.weekly/mythtv-database remains in place (commented out) and that same
script is created in cron.daily/mythtv-database, then upgrades would see no
void to fill, correct? problem averted, yes.
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