[mythtv-users] New server problems

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/23/2014 12:46 AM, Mike Carron wrote:
> I've been trying to get a new server running with Mythbuntu 14.04.1 
> for the last few days and seem to be caught in an endless loop.
>
> First attempt I ran the backend-setup completely and after completing 
> it I restored a backup of my old server. Everything seemed to run fine 
> but when it was finished the new server had the old server's URL and 
> DB password

I'm not sure what you mean by "server's URL".  I'm assuming you're 
talking about the server's IP address or the database server's IP/host 
name (as those are the closest things to a "server URL" that are related 
to DB password).  These are set using mythtv-setup's General Settings.  
You can also set them for a frontend with mythfrontend -p.

> and I was not able to change them. Running mythconverg_restore.pl 
> --change_hostname did nothing. When I started the backend-setup again 
> the old URL and DB password were still there.

This is not what you want.  It's only used if you're using a different 
host name for the system.  If so, you'll need to:  a) restore the 
pre-upgrade/pre-messing-around-with-partial-restore-and-change_hostname 
database backup, b) run mythconverg_restore.pl --change_hostname , c) 
run mythtv-setup to change the "this server" and/or "master server" IP 
address

> It seemed to me that by restoring the database from the old server I 
> essentially made the new server a clone of the old. That makes sense 
> but it isn't what I want to do.
>
> Further reading of the mythconverg_restore.pl material in --help 
> --help convinced me that a partial restore was what I really wanted.

No, that's not what you want.  There is never a reason to do a partial 
restore of the database unless you have a corrupt schema and/or corrupt 
data in certain tables (the ones that aren't included in the partial 
restore).

Mike