<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 5:40 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 6:31 PM George Bingham <<a href="mailto:georgeb1962@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgeb1962@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>I am having to start over with a new boot drive. I had mythtv v 33 installed, but would like to install the current version - 34 right?</div><div><br></div><div>But I''m not sure if I should do that because I have the database backup for v 33. </div><div><br></div><div>Should I install v 33 and get it's database restored and then upgrade to v 34 or can I just install v 34, and restore the database from v 33 to it?</div><div><br></div><div>It's been a while since I've had to do this, so any advice is appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">-- George</div></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IMHO, I'd install v34 on a clean system and get it working with your tuners, etc. Then I'd restore your database and let the system upgrade the database to the new schema that comes with v34.</div><div><br></div><div> I generally do a complete restore as called out on the wiki:</div><div><br></div><div><pre><a href="http://mythconverg_restore.pl" target="_blank">mythconverg_restore.pl</a> --drop_database --create_database --filename mythconverg-1214-20080626150513.sql.gz<br><br></pre><pre><font face="arial,sans-serif">I use the full path to the backup file.<br><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial,sans-serif">You will generally have to go back into the web app and recheck your parameters <br>because some things may have changed.<br><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial,sans-serif">I have not done this recently, but I have created a new V34 system and restored a v34 backup <br>from a different set of hardware and had to update the parameters.<br><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial,sans-serif">Jim A<br><br></font></pre></div></div></div>
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