Simple backup of settings before drive fails

Hi, Im running TVheadend 4.2.7 under Ubuntu 18.04. After many powercuts ( rural france!) my drive is full of errors and I need to clear out and start again as it is failing constantly.

Is there a way I can backup the settings for just TVHeadEnd so I can restore them when I do a fresh install. I cant remember how I set it all up and would rather the easiest solution.

many thanks as ever for such fantastic software.

Monstamac

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RE: Simple backup of settings before drive fails - Added by saen acro almost 4 years ago

In folder where is a profile of TVH there is archive

 /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/backup/

RE: Simple backup of settings before drive fails - Added by Paul M almost 4 years ago

I find that TVH (I am on 4.3-1915~gfebcf9818~bionic) corrupts its configuration so readily that I have become fairly expert and quick in starting again.

What I do from time to time is to stop it, and make a copy of the files in /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend to a datestamps directory, and then WHEN, not if, it trashes itself, I can go back to a previously working one.

I'll think about writing up how to cherry pick the things you need to restore the wreckage of a broken configuration, particularly the recordings.

RE: Simple backup of settings before drive fails - Added by R Maxwell almost 4 years ago

Thanks for all the advice. As soon as I went to backup the folder, the disk crashed doh....
Im hoping that I can mount it in some way in a new machine Im making and grab the stuff of it still. We shall see.

RE: Simple backup of settings before drive fails - Added by R Maxwell almost 4 years ago

Richard Maxwell wrote:

Thanks for all the advice. As soon as I went to backup the folder, the disk crashed doh....
Im hoping that I can mount it in some way in a new machine Im making and grab the stuff of it still. We shall see.

I imagine I'll be on here asking lots of questions again if it doesnt, but I am setting up a 2nd card with unicable for the first time too. fun fun

RE: Simple backup of settings before drive fails - Added by Paul M almost 4 years ago

I share the /home/hts directory over SMB, so it would be a good way to copy recordings over to a new machine

I have a basic NUC (J5005 version) connected to my TV to play back recordings over the network, as well as use Kodi for live streams.

I also run miniDLNA configured to serve the hts directory for streaming clients

I also set up Apache web server with fancy directory indexing on that directory for easy download on other devices

And finally I use an RSS feed generator to make all recordings available as a podcast.

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