[mythtv-users] Backend upgrade question

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> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:29:49 -0400 
> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> 
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Backend upgrade question 
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
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> On 11/03/2011 01:37 PM, Tim wrote: 
> > I recently upgraded from 0.21 to 0.24 (three times because it kept 
> > recording new shows before I had time to migrate all of my systems) 
> > using the mythconverg_backup and mythconverg_restore scripts. The 
> > process went very smoothly each time. In my case, I used a separate 
> > hard drive to do the new installation on so I was guaranteed to not 
> > lose data, but it wasn't a problem in the end anyway. I wrote up the 
> > experience here if you want to take a 
> > look: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/migrating-mythtv-database-between-installations 
> 
> Great rundown. Thought I'd mention a little typo, though, in case you 
> can change it... You wrote --dump_database rather than --drop_database 
> . Not a big deal and likely one that a user will figure out with the 
> error messages. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Mike 
> 

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Thanks for taking a look and the comment. It's been fixed. 


Tim 
Editor 
MissingRemote.com 
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