[mythtv-users] Send EPG data between 2 backends

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/14/2012 17:43, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> 2012/2/14 Richard Morton<richard.e.morton at gmail.com>:
>> It's in the third paragraph on the page referenced...
>>
>> If you do not name any tables followingdb_name or if you use the --databases
>>   or --all-databases
>>   option, entire databases are dumped.
>>
>> Please excuse brevity and pistakes as this email was composed on an Android
>> smartphone.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards
>> Richard Morton
>>
> Thanks! This works:
>
> mysqldump -h localhost -u mythtv -ppass mythconverg program>  program.sql

No it doesn't, because you still have a bunch of data in that table that 
is specific to one single backend.  If you try to import that into 
another MythTV system that is not completely identical, you're just 
going to break things.  You're also missing several supplementary tables 
that contain additional program information.  This all goes back to the 
general idea of not manually tinkering with the database.

Getting back to Karl Dietz's suggestion, there is a script on the wiki 
that will generate an xmltv data file from your recording rules, for 
re-import on different sources or different machines.  I've not used it 
or looked through it, and don't know how functional it is.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Cross-eit.py