[mythtv-users] Upgrading From 0.21-fixes

Jay Foster jayf0ster at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 22 02:43:57 UTC 2012


Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
 > On 4/21/2012 09:46, Jay Foster wrote:
 > > > It just occurred to me that none of my recordings, video, or music
 > > > files will be accessible from the VM for the first part of the DB
 > > > upgrade. Will this cause MythTV on the VM to remove all of my
 > > > recordings, videos, and music from the upgraded DB?  Or will MythTV
 > > > leave them alone?  For the second part of the DB upgrade (0.24 to
 > > > latest), the media files will be on the real hardware.
 >
 > If all you're doing is upgrading the database, just run mythtv-setup,
 > let it do its thing, and then exit.  You may get warnings that your
 > recording directories are not writable.  Your database backup may get
 > stuffed in /tmp if there is no better place to put it.  Other than > 
that,
 > mythtv-setup does not do any kind of file access to care one way or 
another.

Thanks, I like that answer.  As the professor would say, "Good news, 
everybody".

Jay


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