<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">>Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:29:49 -0400<br>>From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com><br>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Backend upgrade question<br>>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>>Message-ID: <4EB2F9BD.8060503@thirdcontact.com><br>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">><br>>On 11/03/2011 01:37 PM, Tim wrote:<br>>> I recently upgraded from 0.21 to 0.24 (three times because it kept <br>>> recording new shows before I had time to migrate all of my systems) <br>>> using the mythconverg_backup and mythconverg_restore scripts. The <br>>> process went very smoothly each time. In my case, I used a separate <br>>> hard drive to do the new installation on so I was guaranteed to not <br>>> lose data, but it wasn't a problem in the end anyway. I wrote up the <br>>> experience here if you want to take a <br>>> look: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/migrating-mythtv-database-between-installations<br>><br>>Great rundown. Thought I'd mention a little typo, though, in case you <br>>can change it... You wrote --dump_database rather than --drop_database <br>>. Not a big deal and likely one that a user will figure out with the </div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">>error messages.<br>><br>>Thanks,<br>>Mike<br>><br><br>------------------------------<br><div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking a look and the comment. It's been fixed.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div>Editor</div><div>MissingRemote.com</div></div></div></body></html>