Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-03 Thread Brian Bosch
On 11/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? After ~ 1 year my current database size is 78MB, but I only have ~6 or so undeleted programs right now. Gzipped it

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-03 Thread Niklas Brunlid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythconverg]# ls -al --sort=sizetotal 263544-rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 150737964 Dec 3 21:08 recordedmarkup.MYD-rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 108397568 Dec 3 21:08 recordedmarkup.MYI-rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 2292452 Dec 3 08:58 program.MYD-rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 914760 Dec 3 08:57

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-03 Thread Larry K
Anyone care to post their scipt to back up/compress their database? I suppose I could write my own, but why reinvent the wheel? :)On 12/1/05, Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:34 +, Neil Bird wrote:My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-03 Thread Wade Maxfield
Anyone care to post their scipt to back up/compress their database? I suppose I could write my own, but why reinvent the wheel? :) This is what I use for all my automatic mysql backups (webservers as well) MySQL Backup Script http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ You'll just

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-03 Thread Larry K
Great! I have this script up and running already! Thanks for the link.On 12/3/05, Wade Maxfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Anyone care to post their scipt to back up/compress their database? I suppose I could write my own, but why reinvent the wheel? :)This is what I use for all my automatic mysql

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-02 Thread Ant Daniel
On 01/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No doubt most of that is taken up by the previously recorded data. That could probably be reduced to just the series # and epsiode # if it wasn't for the forget old feature. The other thing that a good clean-up would do is check the

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-02 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ant Daniel wrote: On 01/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No doubt most of that is taken up by the previously recorded data. That could probably be reduced to just the series # and epsiode # if it wasn't for the forget old feature. The other thing that a good clean-up would

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 01/12/05 05:36, Claude Boucher typed ... ... I usually optimize my database once a week, removing deleted data with phpMyAdmin. Any chance you could expand on this? My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is backup the SQL [currently every night, with a

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:34 +, Neil Bird wrote: My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is backup the SQL [currently every night, with a back-up file per day of the week; if it's going to start getting *really* big I'll have to drop that (it's bz-compressed)].

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC Timely subject... I just

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Paul K
There might be rebuild script, but I usually just make a 0 bit length ascii file with the same name as the non-existing recordings. Then you can remove them within myth. My 20 month long database is about 70Mb uncompressed... ? PaulOn 12/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Paul K wrote: There might be rebuild script, but I usually just make a 0 bit length ascii file with the same name as the non-existing recordings. Then you can remove them within myth. My 20 month long database is about 70Mb uncompressed... ? I don't record all

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Les Gondor
Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread chris
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:22:24PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: 56 MB after 3+ years. No doubt most of that is taken up by the previously recorded data. That could probably be reduced to just the series # and epsiode # if it wasn't for the forget old feature. The other thing that a good

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread andrew matthews
I use XFS it can be both grown and shrunk.I nearly lost a disk about 3 months ago, i shrunk the disk size move all the data from that code to the other drives, and then removed the disk, put in a new one, added it in the volume and then grew the partition again. XFS can do it all! :)

[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:17:53 -0800 From: andrew matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use XFS it can be both grown and shrunk. My manpages and google both seem to disagree with you; neither xfs_growfs nor xfs_admin claim to be able to do this. If you've successfully shrunken an XFS

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
chris writes: c On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:22:24PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: 56 MB after 3+ years. c No doubt most of that is taken up by the previously recorded data. [...] Not for me. I have 172MB also after 3 years. The oldrecorded and oldprogram tables take up only ~1.6%

[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread f-myth-users
I'm about to repartition, leaving everything except recordings in an ext3fs partition, and putting all recordings into JFS. But I'd rather not discover that I've made the ext3 too small, and I'd rather not waste gigs making it too big. The only thing I have no idea about is whether the mysql

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread Greg Estabrooks
guessing that deleting a recording will correctly flush everything else associated with it (cutlist, mythcomflagging, etc), but does the Yes, those get removed. DB keep any records of -everything- I've ever recorded, and will those Yes, an entry goes into oldrecorded with information

[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread f-myth-users
Perfect; that's fairly slow growth. Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Use LVM. You can grow/shrink partitions as needed. Just check that the filesystem used is able to do the same (I use reiserfs with no problems). Also allows the almost transparent addition of more hard disks if needed. I will soon be adding around 300G to the mythtv partition (currently part

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread Claude Boucher
I've been running a Myth system for 9 months now, with programming for 113 channels, 125 videos and 1700 music tracks (for a total of 411,682 records as of now) and I keep it between 35-50 MB. I usually optimize my database once a week, removing deleted data with phpMyAdmin. I would say the

[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:54:44 +0800 From: W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use LVM. Yes, I know about LVM, but it doesn't solve my problem, because the -filesystems- can't be easily resized. (ext3 is easy; it can grow and shrink. One of JFS or XFS [I can't recall which] can only

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-11-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
heh heh - its 12 months since my last ext3 reinstall - lost 40gbytes off an ext3 partition (this being the worst of a number of cases on this laptop) - I have gone back to resierfs and have been happy since. Too flaky for me. I think its a case of YMMV, but I wont be using again ext2/3 except in