[mythtv-users] move recordings to another, existing backend

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> I have a backend which I want to decommission.  It has existing
> recordings which are yet to be watched.  I have another pre-existing
> backend which I would like to move the recordings to.
>
> I thought there was a tool at one that exported the metadata for
> recordings in a format that would allow one to just move the recording
> files to another backend and then would allow the metadata for the
> recordings to be imported into the database of the pre-existing backend.
>
> I couldn't seem to find anything other than exporting sql dumps of an
> existing database for importing into an empty database of a new server.
>  That won't work for me since the machine I want to import into already
> has it's own dataset and recordings.

I believe mytharchive has two options - export to dvd or the
functionality you refer to.