[mythtv-users] restore from rsync
Daryl McDonald
darylangela at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 04:51:49 UTC 2015
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 1:24:02 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Greetings Mythizens, as a result of my DB problems I'm wondering if I can
> > overwrite my / directory with a backup I made by following this wiki:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync I
> also
> > have a DB backup that I could restore through MCC (which doesn't work in
> > current setup) and be up and running again? If this is a good idea how
> > would I go about accomplishing it?
> > My OS is on a separate 32 Gb SSD and recordings etc go to two 1TB drives,
> > rsync is on a flash drive as well as on one of the storage drives.
>
> > TIA Daryl
>
> It's a matter of choice... Your choice. What do you seem worst,
> loosing the recording data since the last backup or not being able to
> record. Off cause you can import those recordings in the video
> database! And this is what you make backups for!
> From what I see coming by, your database seems pretty bad. Off cause
> you don't know what caused it, so it can happen again!
> I believe you have done an import before and that is quite straight
> forward. There is no upgrade in parallel.
> The important thing beforehand is to get a working empty mysql
> database, so if you cannot log-in to the database to dump it, you have
> to stop the mysql service, clean-out the /var/lib/mysql directory and
> to be sure reinstall mysql fresh. From there you can find it all in
> the wiki.
> To be able to look further into the problem and if you have the
> disk space, you can move the old /var/lib/mysql directory to another
> location. You than can investigate further on another machine.
>
I restored an old database, now for the orphans! Thanks to all
>
>
> Tot mails,
> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>
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