MythTV and database backup?

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Tue, November 17, 2009 9:46 pm, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> For fellow MythTV users on FreeBSD:
> What are you using for backup of the MythTV database?
>
> For my current backend, I only do manual db backups (I've been lucky so
> far). But when  MythTV 0.22 comes to FreeBSd, I wil try to build / set
> up a better backend.
>
> MythTV have "official" backup and restore scripts[1], I haven't (yet)
> tried those.
> I see that there is mysqlbackup[2] in ports, but perhaps there is other
> solutions too?
> What are people using?
>
> References:
> 1) http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backup_your_database
> 2) http://www.freshports.org/databases/mysqlbackup/

I'm using mysqldump in a daily cronjob and worked fine so far.

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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