[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

James Crow james at ultratans.com
Mon Sep 14 18:30:05 UTC 2009


Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 14/09/2009, James Crow <james at ultratans.com> wrote:
>   
>>  So now I have lost my mythconverg DB as well as its backups. All my
>> recordings are intact. Is there any way to rebuild the portion of the
>> database that shows the recorded files with just the recordings? I have an
>> older db backup from ~ 6 months ago on an older machine so that will contain
>> some of the older recorded and then deleted programs. I have 1.9TB of
>> recordings and would hate to just end up with files I can view through
>> mythvideo instead of through the recordings interface.
>>     
>
> If you've upgraded your MythTV install recently which required a
> schema update to the database, you *might* have well a copy of the old
> database(s). This should be in your recordings directory, unless you
> specified a particular DB backup directory in mythtv-setup.
>
>   
>>  If anyone has any ideas on possible ways to salvage a drive with the click
>> of death I'm open to suggestions.
>>     
>
> Anyone else recommend the "stick it in the freezer" trick when all else fails?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
>   
Thanks for the tip about a DB schema upgrade, but I did not find one. 
This system was 0.21-fixes from JYA repo. It had been on the same 
version of myth since I built it.

Thanks,
James



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