[mythtv-users] Migrating HW and from .20 to .21. Concerned about storage groups and import of data

[Larry Roberts]

John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com> wrote:
>> John Drescher wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com> wrote:
>>>> I managed to get some new to me hardware so I'm in process of migrating
>>>> from an FC6 box running .20 to a Centos 5.2 running .21.
>>>>
>>>> I have an export of the mysql DB, and had planned to just do a reimport,
>>>> but with the new features of .21 and things like storage groups I'm a
>>>> little concerned that its not that easy.
>>>>
>>>> What if anything do I have to do to import the data?  Is there a field
>>>> that I will need to populate in the DB for each recording to tell it
>>>> what storage group (or rather file system location within the SG) I used?
>>>>
>>> No. Myth automatically finds the files as long as you setup the
>>> recordings folder to be in the storage group.
>>> John
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>> Great.  I was concerned that some field had been added that would cause
>> the import to fail.
>>
>> I'm at the point of importing the file so here goes nothing! (or
>> hopefully EVERYTHING!)
>>
> I believe when you first start the backend the schema will be updated.
> 
> John
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SUCCESS!

For those following along at home I followed the directions found here:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html for moving your data to 
a new server.  If I had been staying with the same version of the DB I 
believe I could have gotten away with just dropping the old db and 
restoring the old one, but given the schema changes this way made sense.

I had to restart the backend to have it reflect my upcoming recordings 
but all appears well now.

Last thing to figure out is how to get the tv-out of the PVR-350. I 
wouldn't be surprised to see a message about that coming up next.  :) I 
vaguely remember some ivtvfb stuff in the xorg.conf that had to be 
changed and fb drivers I had to update only to find out .20 didn't 
support it on the new format.

thanks for the quick response to my overly concerned email!

Larry