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[Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the easiest solution for you would be to just comment out the
line in the cron job in /etc.  If we ever add something else to that
cron job it will do a conffile prompt on upgrade.

The other solution would be for there to be a switch in something in
/etc/default/mythtv-database or /etc/default/mythtv-common or similar
that enabled/disabled the backup.  You would run into the same problem
with conffile prompts should we add anything to that /etc/default file
at any time.

What's better for you?

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Title:
  no way to disable database backup

Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database there is:

  /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl

  Which ends up producing an error:

  ERROR: DBBackupDirectory not specified, stopped at /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl line 856.
  run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database exited with return code 255

  if a database backup directory is not specified anywhere.  But in my
  case, I don't specify one because I have an independent database dump
  and backup process attached to my nightly backups so having
  /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database do it is redundant.  Yet there is no
  way for me, as a user/admin/operator to opt to disable this backup and
  instead I just get these error messages in my e-mail every week.

  There really ought to be a way for me to prefer to not have the MythTV
  package itself do a backup if I know it's being done elsewhere.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: mythtv-database 2:0.25.3+fixes.20121124.76d9c3e-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic i686
  .var.log.mythtv.mythavtest.log:
   
  .var.log.mythtv.mythtv.setup.log:
   
  .var.log.mythtv.mythutil.log:
   
  .var.log.mythtv.mythwelcome.log:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: i386
  CrashDB: mythbuntu
  Date: Sun Dec 30 14:17:55 2012
  Installed_mythtv_dbg: 2:0.25.3+fixes.20121124.76d9c3e-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: mythtv
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.mysql.conf.d.mythtv.cnf:
   [mysqld]
   bind-address=0.0.0.0
   max_connections=100
  mtime.conffile..etc.mysql.conf.d.mythtv.cnf: 2012-11-28T07:22:17

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