[mythtv-users] Migrating from Fedora Core to Ubuntu

[Tom Greer]

john sturgeon wrote:
> I've decided to move from Fedora Core to Ubuntu, and I'm wondering if
> anybody has any words of wisdom. I've got separate Frontend/Backend
> systems, and right now I'm running FC4 on the backend, and FC5 on the front.
>
> I'm mostly interested in making sure that my recordings/database
> settings/etc... get preserved on my backend.

The MythTv documentation provides instructions on how to move your
database to a new machine here:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.7

This essentially performs a backup and restore, which is what I
believe you want to do.

Other advice?

You should plan to migrate both boxes at the same time.  Having the
frontend and backend on different distributions makes it very
difficult to keep the two at the same version.  And if the version is
different, the front and back ends will not be able to communicate.

Tom