[mythtv-users] Going to rebuild my Mythbox

[Jesse Perkins]

I recently reinstalled a server of mine and although I *thought* I
said no format on my 250gb video drive, I lost all my config backups
and my saved videos.  I would recommend a network drive just to be
safe!


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:47:23 -0800, Jamie Kinney <oracledude at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're interested in saving your recordings, download Chris'
> nuvexport utility and archive everything to .nuv/.sql files so that
> you can easily reload your program metadata back into the database.  I
> have a $MYTHTV_ROOT/export directory where I archive shows before
> burning them to DVD or archiving them to disk.
> 
> As long as your music files all have id tags on them, you shouldn't
> need to export the musicmetadata table from your MySQL database.
> 
> If I were you, I'd also make a backup of the /etc directory so that
> you can easily copy settings from your old my.cnf, xorg/XF86Config,
> modprobe.conf files.
> 
> Do you have a spare hard drive or network drive?  If so, mount it and
> copy these directories over to a backup folder.  If not, then
> hopefully you have all of your recordings and music on a partition
> that you can avoid formatting during the re-install.  Archive your
> /etc directory to this location using the command as root "tar -cvzf
> /path/to/archive/directory/etc.tgz /etc".
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jamie
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:48:30 -0500 (EST), Phil Bridges
> 
> 
> <phil at gravityhammer.com> wrote:
> > Because of a myriad of problems (mainly, apt-get keeps trying to remove my
> > kernel), I plan to rebuild my Mythbox this weekend.  Obviously, I'm going
> > to keep my music and recorded shows.
> >
> > Any tips for what else I need to save (and how) before wiping my OS drive
> > and starting anew?
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Jesse Perkins
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