[mythtv-users] Restore backup?

[Yann Lehmann]

Am 06.01.2014 22:26, schrieb Jay Ashworth:
>
> The answer is this, Daryl:
>
> Yes, you should trial-restore that backup -- BUT YOU CAN'T DO IT ON
> YOUR PRODUCTION MACHINE.
>
> (Were those capital letters enough warning, ev'ryone? :-)
>
> If you do it on your production machine, you will--as is suggested
> here--trash your system, since you'll have lots of recording files
> about which your database will no longer have data.
>
>

One approach could be to set up a parallel installation on your 
production machine (dual boot, with same mount points for recordings, 
lirc configuration, etc.), and restore the production db on it from time 
to time, when the live system is not busy. That gives you the 
opportunity to test the backup on the same hardware and data.

That's what I do when upgrading my system to newer OS versions or when 
there are "big" updates that could break something, in order to test 
them before "going live" with the new/upgraded system.