[mythtv-users] Moving mythbackend, how to copy important tables?

Stuart Larson halcyon at obfus.com
Wed Jan 13 17:25:31 UTC 2010


> I am moving my mythbackend over to new hardware, in part because my
> old backend had some unexplained flakiness.   So, I don't want to copy
> the entire DB over and potentially bring the flakiness along.   But, I
> would like to keep a few things, such as the record of the programs I
> have previously recorded/viewed so that they are not recorded again.
> Maybe my recording schedule too, but that would not be too hard to
> re-create.
>
> Anyone have guidance on which tables to copy in this scenario, or any
> gotchas to watch out for?    Or, am I better off not trying to do
> partial copies?

This might be a good starting point:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore

Also, search the list archives as this has come up in the past.




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