[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu to cease development

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:17:15 +1300, you wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 07:20:15 +1300
>Paul <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/11/16 20:21, criggie wrote:
>> > On 07/11/16 12:02, Paul wrote:
>> >> I'm curious as to what OS's list members are using other than Mythbuntu.
>> >>
>> >> Anyone using LinHES? 
>> >
>> Judging from the replies,Mythbuntu users are a minority.
>> Is the Mythtv install process onto a bare OS as involved as it seems to 
>> be implied?Or do you just install BE/FE packages and the set up is 
>> straight forward?Do the various scripts such as Mythwelcome,DBbackup etc 
>> have to be installed individually?
>
>On Debian-derived systems, just installing the package 'mythtv' gets you the works. There are sub-packages if you want just FE or BE. I remember being slightly confused by the database package setup, questions could be better worded - ended up having to reset database passwords. Don't know about the scripts, don't use them.

If you do not have the database optimise and backup scripts installed,
you are living very dangerously.  Unless the optimise script is run
regularly, database corruption usually creeps in somehow, and
eventually builds up to the point where one or more database tables
crash.  You can then lose the entire database.  So it really is a good
idea to be running /etc/cron.daily/optimize_mythdb.

And having a backup of your database also can save you from all sorts
of disasters, especially if you have your database crash.  Mythbuntu
installs /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database to do that, and I leave that
one in place but alter it to be backing up to a non-system local hard
drive.  But I also run /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database which backs up
over my network to a directory on my main Windows PC that collects
data to be backed up to an external drive.

Those two scripts are likely to be Mythbuntu maintained, rather than
part of MythTV itself, so keeping them up to date may become a
problem.  The actual database backup script called from mythtv-backup
(mythconverg_backup.pl) looks like it is part of MythTV, but without
the mythtv-database script, how many people will be running backups
without having run mysqlcheck on the database first?  That results in
backing up corrupt tables.