[mythtvnz] Mythconverg_backup.pl stopped backing up properly

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:50:57 +1200, you wrote:
>
>
>>mysqldump exited with status: 2
>>mysqldump output:
>>mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mythconverg/recordedseek' is marked
>>as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using LOCK TABLES
>>
>>===
>>Does anybody know how I can repair the recordedseek table?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Aaron
>>
>
> The MythTV Control Center has a option in it somewhere for an
> automatic daily database check and optimise task to be run.  I suspect
> that might do the job.  It is not on by default, but I always turn it
> on.  If you have email support installed on your MythTV box, it will
> email the results of its daily run to root.
>

good advice, and also make sure that you have the latest backup and
restore scripts:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore