[mythtv-users] Setting up a replacement Myth server

[Richard Morton]

Are you changing myth versions?
Devs would say to use mythconvergbackup/restore scripts.
Especially if the host name is changing...

Please excuse brevity and pistakes this email was composed on a mobile
phone.

Thanks and best regards,

Richard
On Jul 26, 2011 5:02 PM, "John Pilkington" <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> On 26/07/11 16:45, Alex Butcher wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Neil Bird wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a month or so away from being in a position where I can finally
>>> update my 7-year-old MythTV server. When I first started considering
this
>>> some time ago, I was going to move my tuner hardware across, but I feel
that
>>> I'd be better off starting afresh and having my old tuner cards as
backups.
>>
>> I did something similar a while back.
>>
>>> My main worry is around the maintenance of my database. I have accrued
>>> an awful lot of history and recording rules I'd like to keep intact.
>>
>> I did my upgrade by shutting down mythbackend, doing a mysqldump of the
>> mythconverg database, then shutting down and transplanting the old discs
>> into the new machine. Once there, I copied the recordings, music, ROMs
onto
>> the equivalent filesystems on the new discs, restored the database from
the
>> mysqldump file and installed the latest version of MythTV. A few
automatic
>> schema updates later, and all was well. YMMV.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Alex
>
> Here's a parallel thread from yesterday!
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/486916
>
> HTH
>
> John P
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