[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[rgarlin at comcast.net]

Thanks for the response and that's why I thought, I just never saw anything mentioned about the video files on the mythtv wiki. 


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From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM,  <rgarlin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Regarding the backup of a mythtv database and to keep all the videos I have 
> previously recorded. I need to backup the database, but I would  think I also 
> need to copy all the video files from my mythtv box to a backup server. is that 
> correct, or when I backup the database with mysqldump, it also backs up the 
> video files for me?
> >
> This does not backup the video files. It is pretty much up to the user
> to do that. If you are seriously worried about that you should get
> extra sata drives and copy or (raid ) the video files to the backup.
> Since I will never have enough space with mythtv I do not do either
> and I  use mytharcchvie to move videos to DVD.
> 
> John
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