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| Author: | tama103 [ Fri May 25, 2012 9:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Question about Mythbackup |
Had a little scare last night. My frontend would not boot (failed to mount root) due to a bad sector on the root partition of the hard drive. Thankfully I was able to repair with Seatools. But this got me thinking about a solid backup. After reading the Mythbackup guide and some other threads I still have some questions on how mythbackup works. My system has a lot of customization. I have customized the buttons and button order on the home screens, menu backgrounds etc. In addition, I am running some additional software via pacman install, such as xbmc, chromium, etc. When I have restored from mythbackup in the past, it did a good job restoring my sql tables for recordings, etc; but I lost all my customization including my installed software, lirc, asound.conf, custom display settings, and much more. So my question is, does mythbackup only backup sql related stuff, or am I using it wrong? Is there any command or script that would backup all my custom settings and files to restore those as well? My ultimate goal would be to do a fresh install on a new drive, and run some type of restore script that would put anything customized back in its place. Since my hard drive is bad, I want to avoid doing a clone from norton ghost or something similar. Just to be clear, I only want to backup and restore the boot/system partition, not /myth Thanks! |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri May 25, 2012 7:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question about Mythbackup |
If it hasn't changed too much in 7.x the mythbackup script creates two files: 1) A MySQL DB dump. 2) A tar ball of /root /home /etc and anything else you tell it to (within certain sanity preserving limits). It only restores selected files from that tar ball by default, but again you can give it a more extensive list of things to restore. Aside from blacklisted files it will backup and restore just about anything you ask it to. |
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