[mythtv-users] dp_backups

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Saturday, April 12, 2014, 9:58:53 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 12 April 2014 20:30, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was under the impression that the database have a record of shows I
>>>> have already watched and deleted, and thereby not re-record them.
>>>
>>>
>>> The backup keeps everything, I have rebuilt and restored many times and
>>> carried on where I left off.
>>>
>>> As for backups, after my nightly backup, I rsync to my media drive and also
>>> to dropbox, which then syncs to my laptop and PC, so plenty of copies of it
>>> available
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
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>
>> db_backups happen automatically, so there after you go in manually and
>> run rsync?
>
> If you run the backup through cron you can add the syncing to the
> same script.
>
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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>
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MCC takes care of weekly backups for me and Ubuntu One kept them
available from any PC, but UO is history as of June 1st.
Looks like I'll be climbing the cron job learning curve.   Thanks to all.  Daryl