[mythtv-users] New server problems

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/24/2014 11:34 AM, Mike Carron wrote:
>
> On 10/24/2014 04:17 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> 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).
> ***
> It may not be what I want but the description of the option 
> --partial_restore clearly states that it is required when setting up 
> MythTV on new hardware. Is that not so?

Well, it shouldn't.  Long ago, that was the approach that was used.  
We've since found out that it's completely useless.

Mike