[mythtv-users] Export db from dead system

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Plew <kevincplew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Folks- I'm having an issue with grub2 and have decided to rebuild the
>>> system. I can access the files on the hard drive via the live cd and
>>> can chroot my old system.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to export my database before I rebuild?
>>
>> yes use /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl and then transfer the
>> resulting backup to a USB stick or external drive or scp it to another
>> computer.
>>
>> this wiki entry is great: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
>>
>
> Come to think of it you may need to start mysqld in the chrooted system.

I believe so. That should work in the chroot without problems.

John