[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

[Greg Estabrooks]

> guessing that deleting a recording will correctly flush everything
> else associated with it (cutlist, mythcomflagging, etc), but does the
 
 Yes,  those get removed.

> DB keep any records of -everything- I've ever recorded, and will those

 Yes, an entry goes into oldrecorded with information about the show.
So this will grow "forever" but the per show data is pretty miniscule.

> And if I do mysqldump, is that likely to be enormous?  (I'm guessing

 My SQL data of a myth database that has been running for ~2.5 years
is around 120Meg for the binary data files, 108Meg for the SQL dump, and 
the SQL dump is 12Meg gzipped.