[mythtv-users] does myth 'best practice' have me adding anything to cron?

Mike Hodson mystica at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 05:16:28 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Chances are the database ones are all just ones people have created to run
> optimize_mythdb.pl (and have nothing to do with mythfilldatabase) , which
> checks and attempts to repair MythTV's MySQL database tables and optimized
> the indices and some other stuff.  This action isn't performed automatically
> by MythTV because it's dangerous--if something goes wrong, you could lose
> data. Therefore, users are forced to do it themselves.  The safest way is
> manually/interactively when MythTV is not running (with understanding of the
> process and what can go wrong and how to recover when it does), though in
> general, the danger is small enough that you can run it in a daily cron and
> it is likely to do more good than harm.
>

This entire paragraph leads me to one question: Why does MythTV have
database errors? Does it not use Inno/Xtra/TokuDB (any that have
proper transactions) ?

If so 'checking' tables does nothing useful. If not, why not?

Mike


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