<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 26, 2019, at 4:45 PM, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 10/26/19 3:58 PM, David Hampton wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 15:41 -0400, James Abernathy wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So I have a production mythtv backend called “mythbuntu”. I have a<br class="">new backend built on a Raspberry Pi 4 on the same network. It’s name<br class="">is “raspberrypi”. I’m wanting to parallel test these systems for a<br class="">few months with the same recording rules to see how the RP4 performs.<br class="">“mythbuntu” has Hauppauge WinTV Quad tuners and “raspberrypi” has<br class="">HDHR Quatro tuners. So in theory they both should record the same<br class="">programs since all tuners are on the same antenna.<br class=""><br class="">I started by taking a database backup of mythbuntu and restoring it<br class="">on raspberrypi. I also copied all the recordings over to raspberrypi.<br class="">I had some problems cleaning up the changes needed on raspberrypi to<br class="">General, Tuners, and input connections.<br class=""><br class="">There was some problem with the master backend settings because it<br class="">wanted to setup raspberrypi as a slave off of mythbuntu. I got that<br class="">fixed and both backends showed the same recordings and schedules for<br class="">future recordings.<br class=""><br class="">SO my current issue is, I tried to look for problems on raspberrypi<br class="">with find_orphans.py. It seemed to show duplicate entries and files<br class="">on both mythbuntu and raspberrypi. I don’t know if this was an issue<br class="">on just the database on raspberrypi or was find_orphans looking on<br class="">the network at both backends?<br class=""><br class="">I ended up deleting a lot of recordings on the raspberrypi I didn’t<br class="">want deleted so I’m going to have to repeat the process. Any advice<br class="">on what I should have done???<br class=""></blockquote>One of the columns in the recorded table is the hostname where the<br class="">recording lives. Did you update this field?<br class=""><br class="">The best way to change hostnames is with the mythconverg_restore.pl<br class="">script. Restore the database on the new system, and then run the<br class="">script again with different arguments:<br class=""><br class=""> mythconverg_restore.pl \<br class=""> --change_hostname \<br class=""> --old_hostname="XXXX" \<br class=""> --new_hostname="YYYY"<br class=""><br class="">I did this a while back. I can't remember whether or not I had your<br class="">problem of the new backend trying to find the old backend.<br class=""><br class="">David<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">That sounds like what I need to do differently. I'll test tomorrow morning before my recordings start.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thanks</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Jim A</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I redid the copy of the recordings and the database. The database restore worked fine, but the —change_hostname failed due to some uses on raspberrypi in the database somewhere. I didn’t understand it so I chose to rename the system host and hostname entries to rpi-mythtv. Then the —change_hostname worked.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I exposed some other Raspbian buster issues related to boot up waiting for networking affecting lxpanel and mythtv-backend. I’m going to work that issue in another topic.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>