[mythtv-users] UPDATED: Bash/MySQL script for copying and/or deleting mythfrontend profiles
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jan 12 22:52:02 UTC 2010
On 01/12/2010 05:35 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:23:35PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/2010 05:14 PM, jedi wrote:
>>
>>> If you know what you're doing it's easier to just clone bits
>>> from the settings table.
>>>
>> And therein lies the rub...
>>
>> Mike "Knows the database and data pretty well--well enough to know
>> that messing with direct DB editing of settings is a bad idea" Dean
> That's what backups are for.
>
> If you can't fix it, then you shouldn't try to "fix" it.
Remember the backup is a point in time solution. If you don't find the
parts you broke /immediately/ upon breaking it, the backup is useless
for fixing it--unless, of course, you make matters worse by directly
editing data in the DB and/or restoring parts of the backup or some of
the data from the backup...
Database backups are /not/ a get out of jail free card.
Mike
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