[mythtv-users] Moving frontend/backend to a new machine

[Raymond Wagner]

On Dec 19, 2013, at 14:38, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:

> Ya know I said that, right..?  "The mythconverg_backup.pl and
> mythconverg_restore.pl scripts are a good way to go as well, especially
> if you don't have a lot of linux experience."  While I disagree with
> your assessment (it really isn't that complicated of a process IMHO), I
> certainly didn't mean to offend, but it seems I somehow inadvertently have.

He was responding to this comment.

> Not lucky at all.  When you are in the process of moving a system, definitely make sure you DO NOT have mysqld running.  In all cases of migrations, I have mythbackend off, mysql off.  Attempting to move a database when it is running.. well, that's just silly talk. :)

It's a bit hard to run database backup scripts if the database server is not running.