[mythtv-users] Setting up a replacement Myth server

[John Pilkington]

On 26/07/11 16:45, Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Neil Bird wrote:
>
>>    I'm a month or so away from being in a position where I can finally
>> update my 7-year-old MythTV server.  When I first started considering this
>> some time ago, I was going to move my tuner hardware across, but I feel that
>> I'd be better off starting afresh and having my old tuner cards as backups.
>
> I did something similar a while back.
>
>>    My main worry is around the maintenance of my database.  I have accrued
>> an awful lot of history and recording rules I'd like to keep intact.
>
> I did my upgrade by shutting down mythbackend, doing a mysqldump of the
> mythconverg database, then shutting down and transplanting the old discs
> into the new machine.  Once there, I copied the recordings, music, ROMs onto
> the equivalent filesystems on the new discs, restored the database from the
> mysqldump file and installed the latest version of MythTV. A few automatic
> schema updates later, and all was well. YMMV.
>
> HTH,
> Alex

Here's a parallel thread from yesterday!

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/486916

HTH

John P