[mythtv-users] Upgrade plan

[Mark Boyum]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade off an ancient Myth (0.23-fix) on an ancient OS
> (suse 11.1) to something a little newer.  This is my pan.
>
> 1) Install new OS (Suse 12.2) on new 40G SATA
> 2) Install new MythTB (latest packaged production release, .26?)
> 3) Copy mythconverg database from old drive to new one
> 4) ???
> 5) Profit!!
>
> What do I need to do at step 4?  Run the upgrade scripts manually?
> Run mythtv-setup and it will do it for me?  Or will the .26 backend
> automagically find that the DB is out of schema and run the upgrade
> scripts for me?
>
> I'm still running IVTV tuners; are those supportable in 3.x kernels?
> (I think 12.2 is on 3.6 or 3.7...)
>
> Any other obvious things I've forgotten?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --

I'm not using SUSE, but I have a couple suggestions:
1) Use mythconverg_backup.pl to backup database and store media
accessible to old and new system.
2) Shutdown current system
3) Install new OS using the existing hostname and IP address
4) Install current MythTV for your distro
5) Mount all MythTV related filesystems in the same locations they
were on the old host
6) Use mythconverg_restore.pl to copy database to new host
7) Run mythtv-setup to get visual feedback of the upgrade and verify
settings are correct for new system
8) Profit! or shutdown new system and fall back to the old one to try
again later.

I'm sure I forgot something...