TIP: Adding automatic Wiz.bin backup to startup

[laurenglenn]

After having Wiz.bin corruption which caused my SageTV install to lose the ability to schedule recordings, I added the following to my SageTV startup:

date +%s > ~/.datenum
read chep < ~/.datenum
tar -cf /var/media/Wiz-backup-$chep.tar /opt/sagetv/usr/Wiz.bin

This will create a TAR compressed file of your Wiz.bin titled /var/media/Wiz-backup-114040444.tar ($chep ends up being the # of seconds since 1/1/1970, so it will be unique with each execution)

so...... to get this to work, edit your "~/.xinitrc" file and put these at the beginning. Also, I put an "exec .xinitrc" and the end of the file to force SageTV to be reloaded in case it crashes when running as a server (mode 0)

Lauren

[dbfresh23]

Alternatively, You could probably just add a cron job that backs up what ever file(s) you want at said time.

man cron (hmm - I wonder if they included the man pages)

[riversma]

Everytime i reboot my system, my wizbin gets corrupted. I added the lines and still not working. i am gettting a bunch of wiz.bin00 corupt files usr/directory. Do you know what i am doing wrong?

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by riversma

Everytime i reboot my system, my wizbin gets corrupted. I added the lines and still not working. i am gettting a bunch of wiz.bin00 corupt files usr/directory. Do you know what i am doing wrong?

If the Wiz.bin originally came from a Windows install, that's probably what's happening.... at least, that's what happened to me. I deleted the existing Wiz.bin file and had Sage start from scratch. It worked fine after that.

The lines do the following (per each line):
(1) Writes the date (in seconds from 1970) to a file
(2) Reads back the information from the file into a variable
(3) Creates a compressed file with that number as part of the filename

It doesn't change or overwrite your existing Wiz.bin file.

Lauren

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by dbfresh23

Alternatively, You could probably just add a cron job that backs up what ever file(s) you want at said time.

man cron (hmm - I wonder if they included the man pages)

True, but if the file were in use, it might cause corruption.... but it's a great second option that I'll use in addition to it.

Lauren

[churth]

Originally Posted by laurenglenn

After having Wiz.bin corruption which caused my SageTV install to lose the ability to schedule recordings, I added the following to my SageTV startup:

date +%s > ~/.datenum
read chep < ~/.datenum
tar -cf /var/media/Wiz-backup-$chep.tar /opt/sagetv/usr/Wiz.bin

This will create a TAR compressed file of your Wiz.bin titled /var/media/Wiz-backup-114040444.tar ($chep ends up being the # of seconds since 1/1/1970, so it will be unique with each execution)

so...... to get this to work, edit your "~/.xinitrc" file and put these at the beginning. Also, I put an "exec .xinitrc" and the end of the file to force SageTV to be reloaded in case it crashes when running as a server (mode 0)

Lauren

If you want to not have to write to a file everytime, you can do this in one line:

tar -cf /var/media/wiz-backup-`date +%s`.tar /opt/sagetv/usr/Wiz.bin

(those are `'s, which are under the ~)