[mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Fri Sep 9 02:38:41 UTC 2005


On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote:

> I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
> other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then 
> copy
> the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running

I'm certainly not an expert but when I hosed my system in a less 
drastic way I booted up knoppix and used it to mount my old drives to 
copy off whatever I needed. Search for a directory called mythconverg 
and then pull out all the .myd files and that should get you the 
database. Even if you can't get all of the files the recordings and 
videometadata tables are the most important ones for getting you back 
to where you were before your crash.

- George



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