<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">>I know how to<br>>back up the database, install a new 64 bit version of Natty or Oneric, and<br>>then restore the database, but if I do that, it forces the upgrade to 0.24,<br>>and that is the part I am not so sure of. I know that the database schema<br>>changes with each version, and I am worried about importing a 0.23 database<br>>into a 0.24 installation.<br>><br>>Does anybody have experience? I have a very high WAF (my current system<br>>has been stable for 3 years, and the one before that was good for about 2<br>>years), and I don't want to ruin it.<br>><br>>Matthew Asplund<br><div>></div><div><hr id="zwchr"> </div><div>I recently upgraded from 0.21 to 0.24 (three times because it kept recording new shows before I had time to migrate all of my systems) using the mythconverg_backup and mythconverg_restore scripts. The process went very smoothly each time. In my case, I used a separate hard drive to do the new installation on so I was guaranteed to not lose data, but it wasn't a problem in the end anyway. I wrote up the experience here if you want to take a look: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/migrating-mythtv-database-between-installations</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div>Editor</div><div>MissingRemote.com</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>