[mythtv-users] 5 Db rotate

[Mike Holden]

Stephen Worthington wrote:
> My recommendation, in fact, is to keep the original local weekly
> backup running, alongside the daily Dropbox backup.  Backups to
> local
> drives are much less likely to go wrong for strange reasons than
> ones
> that rely on network connections and hardware you do not control.

A Dropbox folder is likely local to begin with, and then sent out to
the cloud by Dropbox in the background. That's the way mine works -
a local filesystem, /dropbox, contains a bunch of directories,
/dropbox/user1, /dropbox/user2 etc., which is the local repository
for dropbox for those users, Dropbox then takes care of spinning
that data out to the cloud afterwards.

The suggestion to check your backups, of course, is a piece of
advice that always bears repeating! Indeed, we ought to be testing
them via a restore every now and then, to a fresh system, just to
make sure they are usable backups and not just a useless bunch of
bytes on a disk!
-- 
Mike Holden