[mythtv-users] Help recovering my myth database

Nick F nikos.f at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 10:58:26 UTC 2008


Help!
Something hosed my backend (I've got builders in and I think they were
cycling the power in the house on and off when installing something - I
unfortunately wasn't home - and I think it's messed with my system drive).
 The computer wouldn't boot (got stuck at the grub menu) and the 'recovery
installation' option in the Fedora DVD couldn't fix it.

My data is all fine (on a separate 5-disk RAID-5 array on the machine).

I have installed a fresh instance of Fedora 9 on a new partition on free
space on the system drive.  I can mount my old partitions to get to my old
/etc files, etc. Using my old mdadm.conf I can get my RAID back just fine.

Unfortunately my last backup of my myth database is dated the 4th of July -
so I'm at least 2 weeks behind (which is better than 2 1/2 years).

What's the best way to recover?  Can I use the old mythconverg database and
just copy it over - how do I do that?  How do I preserve my mysql settings?
(is there a config file I should copy over?)  Any easy way to get my apache
config files for mythweb copied over?

Any advise on getting smoothly back online?  I've been using Myth for a few
years now - but never had to recover from anything like this and  in that
respects still a bit of a noob,  Myth has become the only way to watch any
TV or listen to music in the house and my wife is getting annoyed!

Thanks
Nick
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