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Joe Borne wrote:<br>
> I'm going to be migrating from 0.20 to 0.21 soon and at the same time<br>
> undertaking a hardware reconfiguration and change of OS. I have<br>
> everything else mapped out and planned well and I feel very confident<br>
> in the migration.<br>
><br>
> One piece remains though that is uncharted territory for me as I am<br>
> not much of a MySQL expert, or very knowledgable about databases in<br>
> general. I need to know if it's possible to migrate my MythTV database<br>
> data by backing it up and restoring it. I've done this before, but<br>
> only in a 0.20 to 0.20 situation and I know there are significant<br>
> differences in 0.21.<br>
><br>
> So, has anyone done this? If so do you have documentation?<br>
><br>
> The best thing I have found so far is here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc23.5" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc23.5</a><br>
> and following the directions up through 23.7<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance everyone.<br>
Hi<br>
<br>
As long as you create and restore the database before you install 0.21<br>
it will upgrade the database schema automatically<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
Dunc<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Unfortunately, the target OS here is Mythbuntu 8.10. So it necessitates a migration of data directly into a 0.21 database that will be installed with Mythbuntu. <br></div></div><br>
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