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<body><br><div><div><div>Are you on *buntu (I think you are).<br><br></div>Try <br><br>sudo /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database<br><br>
</div>It will try to repair the db, then create a(nother) backup.<br><br><br></div><div>While you are about it move that script to /etc/cron.daily and increase the number of copies it keeps. (They take up damn all room and it can take some time to realise you have corruption).<br>
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</blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Regarding the suggestion above,I am familiar with crontab entries but not so much with the rest of cron.<br></div><div>So,if I move that script to cron.daily, I do not have to do any other configuration?</div><div><br></div><div>Where do I find the entry for the number of copies it rotates? </div><div>Is this in the resource file?</div><div>I don't appear to have a /.mythtv/backuprc </div><div>It's keeping 5 copies at present.</div><div><br></div><div>-Paul</div></body></html>