[mythtv-users] getting error when restoring database

[Matthew McClement]

Johnny Russ wrote:
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> 
> /var/backups$ mysql -u root -p mythconverg < mythconverg.daily.sql.gz
> 
> I get this error: ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\5'.

Try the following instead:

zcat mythconverg.daily.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p mythconverg

Matt