[mythtvnz] How to increase the number of DB backups rotated

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at 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)
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> 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.
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> DBBackupDirectory=/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups
> rotate=21
>
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> 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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