[mythtv-users] Backup and Reinstall from FC6 to CentOS 5.1

[David Watkins]

On 05/05/2008, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've succombed to the fact that I should start my master backend off
> new, and put on CentOS 5.1.
>
> I am going to buy some more hard drives and swap out a couple of the
> smaller drives for some nice fat 500g drives, and likely make some
> sort of raid setup too.
>
> I have lots of recordings on my system, but I suppose there isn't
> anything there that I can't likely download again. I'm starting to be
> okay with the fact of just dumping my entire recordings folder and
> starting off new again.
>
> I have a 2 tuner setup with 2 Bell Expressvu satellites plugged in via
> svideo. I have the ir blaster hooked up.
>
> Do I just need to save my lirc.conf, lircrc to keep that functionality
> working. It was so long ago that I got it working, that I sorta
> forget.
>
> Anything else I should backup before I wipe and load?


As a minimum:

/etc
/home/mythtv    (or whatever your mythtv is)
/root

and a backup of the mythconverg database (even if you don't want to
take your recordings with you, you might find the card setup,
channels, recording rules
etc usefull).

Actually moving the recordings is pretty easy.  Just copy them to one
of your new disks, then mount them in the same location as they were
on the old system before you restore the database.