[mythtv-users] Migrating MythTV backend

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 12:00:24 UTC 2008


Also, I have not found an answer to this yet. Mythbuntu put the
recording folder in /var/lib/mythtv. That's fine I guess, but I prefer
to have my drives listed in /media and was considering having the
750GB drive listed as /media/mythtv. It doesn't really matter, just
preference but I don't know if that is going to mess up MySQL when I
transfer the database. I don't want it to think it is still in /var
when the drive is in /media.

When using Storage Groups it's possible to move recordings between
groups and mythtv just finds them, presumably based on their filename?
 I infer from this that if you create a storage group on your new
build then you should be able to just put your recordings in there and
they'll be found, based on your existing database.

Even if that doesn't work, providing you have a backup of your
database it's not too hard to make global changes to the backup file
using a text editor.  Just make sure you create that backup of your
database.


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