deanie44
January 1st, 2014, 10:29 AM
Hi everyone. Happy New Year! I am trying to backup the database in Mythtv without success. I have read several articles and posts, but what I am doing is not working. Here is the output of the terminal:
salliemae@salliemae:~$ mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose
Configuring environment:
- username: salliemae
- HOME: /home/salliemae
- MYTHCONFDIR: /home/salliemae/.mythtv
Parsing configuration files:
- checking: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/config.xml
parsing: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/config.xml
- checking: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/backuprc
parsing: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/backuprc
Applying command-line arguments.
Checking configuration.
Database Information:
DBHostName: localhost
DBPort: 3306
DBUserName: mythtv
DBPassword: XXX
DBName: mythconverg
DBSchemaVer:
DBBackupDirectory: /home/mythtv
DBBackupFilename:
Executables:
mysqldump: mysqldump
compress: gzip
ERROR: DBBackupDirectory is not a directory or is not writable. Please specify
a directory in your database information file using DBBackupDirectory.
If not using a database information file, please specify the
--directory command-line option.
Invalid backup directory, stopped at /usr/local/bin/mythconverg_backup.pl line 870.
salliemae@salliemae:~$
I do not understand what I am doing wrong. Can someone please help me. Any suggestions will be appreciated. sister5091
salliemae@salliemae:~$ mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose
Configuring environment:
- username: salliemae
- HOME: /home/salliemae
- MYTHCONFDIR: /home/salliemae/.mythtv
Parsing configuration files:
- checking: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/config.xml
parsing: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/config.xml
- checking: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/backuprc
parsing: /home/salliemae/.mythtv/backuprc
Applying command-line arguments.
Checking configuration.
Database Information:
DBHostName: localhost
DBPort: 3306
DBUserName: mythtv
DBPassword: XXX
DBName: mythconverg
DBSchemaVer:
DBBackupDirectory: /home/mythtv
DBBackupFilename:
Executables:
mysqldump: mysqldump
compress: gzip
ERROR: DBBackupDirectory is not a directory or is not writable. Please specify
a directory in your database information file using DBBackupDirectory.
If not using a database information file, please specify the
--directory command-line option.
Invalid backup directory, stopped at /usr/local/bin/mythconverg_backup.pl line 870.
salliemae@salliemae:~$
I do not understand what I am doing wrong. Can someone please help me. Any suggestions will be appreciated. sister5091