<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome@supernet.ab.ca" target="_blank">jerome@supernet.ab.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I knew this day was coming... My trusty Myth box, nearly 8 years old,<br>
running 24/7 for all but 2 6-month periods and maybe a few half-days for a<br>
move or upgrade, just threw out the invoice for it today with a tax-records<br>
purge. CAN$300 with a CAN$180 PVR-500, a little extra RAM, to 1G, and later<br>
an additional 280G drive for more recordings. 16,005 recordings, over 1059<br>
shows.<br>
<br>
SMART is starting to send ominous signals about /dev/sda1...<br>
<br>
So now it's time to make another one for the next eight years. I have the<br>
gear planned out, might bite the bullet and activate my digital box and<br>
deal with channel-change and priority issues. Not interested in paying for<br>
HD. Fortunately I can run the new box in parallel since it has a matching<br>
PVR-500.<br>
<br>
But... I'm on MythTV 0.21 and it's loooonnng-obsolete.<br>
<br>
I'd like some advice on my 2 options, as I see them.<br>
<br>
1 Capture my old recordings as just videos, forget all my old stuff<br>
and start fresh.<br>
<br>
If I haaaave to. I'd have to rebuild all my recording rules and do a<br>
bunch of Never Record for episodes I've already seen.<br>
<br>
Maybe I could extract the Recorded and Recording Rules data from<br>
the old setup and import them into the new setup.<br>
<br>
I'm not afraid to look at schemas and write some SQL. It's worth it to<br>
me, unless it's an insane idea. Or maybe I could just dump them out to<br>
give me a list for doing it manually.<br>
<br>
2 Install whatever handles the last MythTV release that could migrate<br>
from 0.21 (0.25)? Then upgrade everything (OS and Myth) to the latest.<br>
<br>
Can I do that for Fedora? I have time to go through the process.<br>
<br>
<br>
Anyone with experience upgrading from a way-old Myth?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just do an iterative upgrade... 0.23, 0.25, 0.27.... should be pretty flawless as far as upgrading the critical data (recording history). Then I would do a full DB backup (just in case) and a partial DB backup (for restoring to the new system).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Build your new system, install the latest mythtv, configure everything to your liking, and finally do the partial restore to get your recording rules and history back.</div><div><br></div><div>Look in the wiki for instructions for doing the partial backup/restore.</div>
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