[mythtv-users] Going to rebuild my Mythbox

[George Styles]

Whenever I re-build a system, i backup EVERYTHING onto a spare hdd as space 
is so cheap these days, and it really helps to have a fall-back position.

Having said that, for MythTV in particular, you will be wanting to backup 
the MySQL database which drives it.

I use the following to do this:

mysqldump mythconverg -u mythweb -pmythweb > mythconverg.dmp

Check that you put a valid username and pasword in there. This will produce 
a file called mythconverg.dmp which you should burn to cd or whatever, whic 
can be run against mysql after you restore to get everything back.

BEWARE - im not saying that this is ALL you should back up, but IMHO this is 
most important if you want to keep your existing settings.

cheers

g


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hamish Moffatt" <hamish at cloud.net.au>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Going to rebuild my Mythbox


> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:48:30AM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> Because of a myriad of problems (mainly, apt-get keeps trying to remove 
>> my
>> kernel), I plan to rebuild my Mythbox this weekend.  Obviously, I'm going
>> to keep my music and recorded shows.
>>
>> Any tips for what else I need to save (and how) before wiping my OS drive
>> and starting anew?
>
> Consider installing Debian, so that you never need reinstall the OS
> again? Obviously you're not referring to Debian's apt-get.. This
> isn't Windows and you shouldn't need to reinstall it, ever.
>
> Hamish
> -- 
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
>


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