[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[John Drescher]

>  So what happens if your motherboard is fried by a power supply failure
>  which was my fear yesterday? I thought that the disk drives would
>  probably be OK but I knew that I could not find an exact replacement for
>   the motherboard and I feared that I would need to do a complete
>  reinstall of the OS. I was not confidant that a reinstall could preserve
>  the existing data. I also needed to provide a TV set to watch tonight's
>  TV programs.
>  --
With linux I have never worried about that. As long as the processor
is the same type moving disks to another system has never failed me
yet (and I have done this dozens of times at work to clone machines).
You may have to install a network driver or a graphics driver after
the move or recompile the kernel but that is usually it.

John