[mythtv-users] Previously recorded program information

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Sun Apr 8 20:33:32 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/08/2007 12:27 PM, nik gibson wrote:
>   
>> My mythtv box is acting badly; mythmusic crashes because /dev/dsp is
>> locked after playing anything with mythvideo.  I'm also getting
>> database and yum errors.
>>
>> I'm thinking of rebuilding the box but I want to save the previously
>> recorded program information.  Does anyone know what tables to save or
>> have a mysql command to save and re-import the appropriate tables into
>> a new mythtv database?
>>
>> I can re-create all the settings; all I want to save is the previously
>> recorded programs.
>>     
>
> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.5
> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.7
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
>   
And a much simpler method is to dump the entire database, save it and 
restore on the new system along with the actual video files. Then run 
mythtv-setup and delete and recreate the video sources and lineups. You 
might also need to edit a few values in the general setup but thats 
pretty minor.


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