[mythtv-users] controlling disk space on "/" on mythtv backend

[Mark Perkins]

On 12 January 2018 5:49:42 am Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:

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> Question on the cron job for db backup.  Is this setup on install of mythtv?  I have not created a cron job to do this. But there are a few backups in /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups and I have not run the backup manually yet. I just now ran:
>     /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl
> It puts the backup in the directory that I specified in Storage Directories in setup.  I just don't know if it's running automatically.
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> Jim A
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As I understand it, no the cron backup is not created automatically by mythtv. However when it does database upgrades it will try very hard to run a backup before doing the upgrade. That may be the few files you see.
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