[mythtv-users] REMINDER: Back Up Your Database.

[Brent Bolin]

Not only do DB backups, but rsync to your running frontends.  I initiate
the rsync from the frontend with keys to ensure it gets done when the
frontend is up.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> Every night.
>
> My personal recommendation, to avoid WAF crashes like the on another poster
> is impaled on, is to run the mythconverg_backup.pl script from cron every
> day
> at 4am, and then *copy the created backup file to every spinning drive you
> have installed on your machine*.  That way, if you ever have to restorr,
> you
> have 3, 4, (5, 6, 7... :-) chances to have a good copy, and you don't care
> which drives might not be mounted at the time.
>
> Make it your New Year's Resolution.  Go check now: do you have a current
> backup of your DB?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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