[mythtv-users] db_backup failure after recent update on Master

[Bill Meek]

On Wednesday 11 October 2023 01:11:27 PM (-05:00), James Abernathy wrote:


snip....

 > I see what you mean, but I'm not sure how to recover from this.  I just
 > finished spinning up a Linux Mint Debian Edition (Faye) debian 12 system
 > that has access to HDHR tuners. I have Mythtv v34 running on it with 
most
 > of my critical recording rules duplication there.  So I have some time 
to
 > recover the production backend.
 > 
 > I imagine that my only choice would be to completely rebuild, which I 
was
 > planning to do at some point and switch it from Kubuntu to some flavor 
of
 > Debian 12. My biggest issue is not Mythtv. This hardware is also my Home
 > NAS.  SO the only safe way to rebuild is to buy a new boot SSD and 2 new
 > 4TB HDD for a 4TB mirror.
 > 
 > So I'm willing to try some suggestions if you have any. I could 
uninstall
 > mythtv and reinstall after deleting any /usr/local stuff if I can 
identify
 > it all without killing what I have that is not mythtv related. I have a 
DB
 > backup and all my recordings are on the NAS part of the system.
 > 
 > Jim A

If you haven't already, you should probably check how the backend (from 
/usr or /usr/local )starts, with:

     systemctl cat mythtv-backend.service

The ExecStart line is the one of interest.
-- 
Bill