Have you tried running the mysqldump command by hand? The expanded version of this:

Should be:

Look for any errors or warnings. The only other thing that is done to the dump is to compress it, which should expand to:

If the first step succeeds and doesn't produce an empty file, try that and see what happens.

If those don't provide an obvious answer, try adding a line like this to mythbackup :

right after the "#!/bin/bash" magic.

Good news everyone the mythconverg_backup.pl worked I haven't tried to back up the new system yet I'm still a little busy making it spouse friendly.
Thanks for the help.

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Good news mattbatt.

Now it would still be good to see why mythbackup was throwing errors. It may be that the back up check has an issue or it is giving you misleading messages. tjc's step by step should help and if you look at the script, you can manually run the verification steps too to see where the issue may be arising.

Either way, you should raise an issue in the bug tracker: http://linhes.org/bugs/projects/linhes

This will allow the devs to become aware and prioritize. I'm pretty sure mythbackup is a LinHES script so that is a good place to start.

will do I'm trying to remember if anything changed in the last 6 months. The only thing i can think of is that i went to digital audio and that might jive with the asound file thing. but i dismissed that since that part of the backup was backing up directories and not the database. I still might have a fight on my hands I havent yet proven that the new instal will back up

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Ran Mythbackup and it worked fine on the first try!!!!!!!

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weird. You might have fixed something in the database with one of the earlier steps.

Nope, that's just noise. The built-in restore list includes several optional files, mostly audio config stuff, and that is one one them. The tar utility whines about not finding it, but it's completely harmless. I've discussed the reason for not suppressing those warnings before in some detail (we do actually suppress a number of others) so I won't repeat them here.