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On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:40:24 +1300, you wrote:

>Nick Rout suggests in this thread to institute daily DB backups and change
>the number of copies saved to a larger number (21)
>
>I have moved the mythtv-database to /etc/cron.daily and it is creating a
>backup each day.I also created a backuprc file with this command: echo
>"DBBackupDirectory=/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups" > ~/.mythtv/backuprc and
>added rotate=21 to it. -i.e.
>
>DBBackupDirectory=/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups
>rotate=21
>
>
>But it is still only saving 5 backups.What have I done wrong?
>
>-Paul

When things are run from cron.daily, I believe they will be run as
root. So you need to create the backuprc file in /root/.mythtv, not
under your mythtv user.

I took an alternative approach. I kept the original mythtv-database
entry in cron.weekly, backing up to /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups. But I
added a modified copy of mythtv-database to my cron.daily directory
that was changed to backup to a CIFS mounted directory on my Windows
box, and still does the default 5 backups there. So I get 5 weekly
backups on the MythTV box and 5 daily bakups on my Windows box. I
think it is a really good idea to have backups of my database on a
different drive from the one doing all the hard work on my MythTV box,
so that if it fails suddenly, I still will have a copy of the
database.

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Paulgir <paulgir@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick Rout suggests in this thread to institute daily DB backups and change
> the number of copies saved to a larger number (21)
>
> I have moved the mythtv-database to /etc/cron.daily and it is creating a
> backup each day.I also created a backuprc file with this command: echo
> "DBBackupDirectory=/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups" > ~/.mythtv/backuprc and
> added rotate=21 to it. -i.e.
>
> DBBackupDirectory=/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups
> rotate=21
>
>
> But it is still only saving 5 backups.What have I done wrong?
>
> -Paul

Just taking a look to check. That cron script is surely run as root,
but my backuprc file is in ~/.mythtv . I'll need to figure this out...


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