[mythtv-users] mythconverg_backup.pl --rotate 10
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Apr 3 11:37:47 UTC 2011
On 04/03/2011 05:44 AM, Richard Morton wrote:
>> echo "rotate=20">> $HOME/.mythtv/backuprc
>>
>> Then, don't specify --rotate on the command line.
> $ ls /var/lib/mythtv/backups
> mythconverg-1254-20110328033803.sql mythconverg-1254-20110402033802.sql.gz
> mythconverg-1254-20110329033801.sql mythconverg-1254-20110403033802.sql.gz
> mythconverg-1254-20110331221833.sql.gz
>
> $ ls .mythtv
> MythBrowser channels mysql.txt remotecache themes
> backuprc config.xml osdcache themecache tmp
>
> $ cat ~/.mythtv/backuprc
> rotate=20
>
I'm still waiting for the --verbose output I mentioned before... :)
> and doing sudo crontab -e (with the same user) has the following line
> 38 3 * * * /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl
>
> so unless cronruns with a different user???
But when you run "sudo crontab -e", you're running crontab as the root
user, not the current user, so you're editing root's crontab--meaning
that the command will run as root.
If you run crontab -e (without sudo), you're running crontab as your
current user. So, either do that or make sure root also has an
appropriate $HOME/.mythtv/backuprc.
Mike
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