[mythtv-users] Another "moving backend / restoring database" thread

[Jon Whitear]

----- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that's fine after the upgrade to 0.22 completes.  It's
> 0.21-fixes 
> and below that required a specific configuration of the database.
> 

Cool.
 
> 
> That said, from reading the above steps, everything seems correct if
> you 
> plan to a) throw away the "new" database backup that you're making in
> 
> step 2 (i.e. you're just doing it "in case" or whatever) and b) the 
> --new_hostname you use will be a hostname that's never been used
> before 
> on the system with the database you're restoring (the "old"
> database).
> 
> Mike

Yes, the backup of the new database is "just in case". I shall be replacing the new database with the existing one. The new hostname hasn't been used before.

Thanks Mike.

Jon