[mythtv-users] Bringing old recordings back to life

[HP-mini]

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 11:09 -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> On 01/20/2014 10:58 AM, George Nassas wrote:
> > On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
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> > Besides the backup mentioned by Stephen you should be careful to perform your experiments at a time you know the backend won't be starting any recordings. There's not much point taking a backup if it's going to be immediately obsoleted with new information.
> Thanks.  That makes sense.
> 
> No worries about the current database yet - it's brand new, and it's 
> really a test bed, so I lose nothing by throwing it away if things go 
> wrong.  I only have a few test recordings in it and a handful of movies 
> so far.
> 
> I'll restore the old database and look at it and see what I can pull out 
> of it.  Maybe I can just dump those dozen records, edit by hand as 
> needed and insert into the current mythconverg and see if I blow 
> anything up.
> 
> 
With the old database restored..use mytharchive & write to
folder/files..you can do multiple recordings at once.

With the new/any mythfrontend: mytharchive import from file.

mytharchive preserves metadata, seektables & cutlists..