[mythtv-users] Setting up a replacement Myth server

[Alex Butcher]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Neil Bird wrote:

>   I'm a month or so away from being in a position where I can finally 
> update my 7-year-old MythTV server.  When I first started considering this 
> some time ago, I was going to move my tuner hardware across, but I feel that 
> I'd be better off starting afresh and having my old tuner cards as backups.

I did something similar a while back.

>   My main worry is around the maintenance of my database.  I have accrued 
> an awful lot of history and recording rules I'd like to keep intact.

I did my upgrade by shutting down mythbackend, doing a mysqldump of the
mythconverg database, then shutting down and transplanting the old discs
into the new machine.  Once there, I copied the recordings, music, ROMs onto
the equivalent filesystems on the new discs, restored the database from the
mysqldump file and installed the latest version of MythTV. A few automatic
schema updates later, and all was well. YMMV.

HTH,
Alex