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

[Rich West]

On 12/20/2013 08:35 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
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>> 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.

Out of context and order, I can see the confusion. Putting it back in
context, that part was in reference to doing a "cold" backup, with the
point being that copying database files when the database files are in
use is almost always going to result in a failure.

-Rich