[mythtv-users] Please help me move my backend to new host/hardware.

[Ram Ramesh]

On 3/26/23 00:47, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 25/03/2023 23:46, Ram Ramesh wrote:
>> Unfortunately, it appears that tuners are tied to either backend name or
>> IP address. So, unless you name your new hardware/host the same host
>> name as the old one and force DHCP to assign the same IP address, the
>> migration process has little chance of success. Of course, you can give
>> a new name, but capture card and input connections will be lost. You
>> will have to manually rebuild it, but I am not ready for that. So, I
>> caved in and used same hostname and IP address.
>>
>> Are there any scripts available that will change host/IP entries in the
>> database as part of restore? BTW, mythweb also gets confused if IP changes.
> As Mike said, use mythconverg_restore.pl with the --change_hostname
> option, as described here [1], which is referred to from the
> over-arching article [2].
>
> [1]:
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Change_the_hostname_of_a_MythTV_frontend_or_backend
> [2]:https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration
>
>
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Jim,

   Thanks. I read migration notes on the web, but did not review 
db_restore notes again. So, I missed the instructions towards the end of 
db_restore wiki page. In the hurry of things, we tend to skip over 
critical info. My fault. Will be more careful next time.

Regards
Ramesh
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