<p>Are you changing myth versions?<br>
Devs would say to use mythconvergbackup/restore scripts.<br>
Especially if the host name is changing...</p>
<p>Please excuse brevity and pistakes this email was composed on a mobile phone.</p>
<p>Thanks and best regards,</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 26, 2011 5:02 PM, "John Pilkington" <<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On 26/07/11 16:45, Alex Butcher wrote:<br>>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Neil Bird wrote:<br>
>><br>>>> I'm a month or so away from being in a position where I can finally<br>>>> update my 7-year-old MythTV server. When I first started considering this<br>>>> some time ago, I was going to move my tuner hardware across, but I feel that<br>
>>> I'd be better off starting afresh and having my old tuner cards as backups.<br>>><br>>> I did something similar a while back.<br>>><br>>>> My main worry is around the maintenance of my database. I have accrued<br>
>>> an awful lot of history and recording rules I'd like to keep intact.<br>>><br>>> I did my upgrade by shutting down mythbackend, doing a mysqldump of the<br>>> mythconverg database, then shutting down and transplanting the old discs<br>
>> into the new machine. Once there, I copied the recordings, music, ROMs onto<br>>> the equivalent filesystems on the new discs, restored the database from the<br>>> mysqldump file and installed the latest version of MythTV. A few automatic<br>
>> schema updates later, and all was well. YMMV.<br>>><br>>> HTH,<br>>> Alex<br>> <br>> Here's a parallel thread from yesterday!<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/486916">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/486916</a><br>
> <br>> HTH<br>> <br>> John P<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
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