[mythtv-users] New Machine, New Versions, New Distro... advice needed...

[Kris B.]

> I, personally, think that localhost should never be used in any MythTV 
> setup--because it necessarily means you can never add any additional 
> backend, frontend, client (MythWeb or 3rd-party) hosts of any kind 
> (without changing the hostname/IP information).  So, I would recommend 
> you do change the hostname (and IP address!) to something appropriate.
> 
> That means that after you restore the backup--and *before* you run /any/ 
> MythTV application--you would need to do:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Change_the_hostname_of_a_MythTV_frontend_or_backend
> and once that completes, you can run mythtv-setup to a) upgrade the 
> database from 0.23.5 to 0.26 schema and b) allow you to manually change 
> the "this server" and "master server" IP address settings to real, 
> routable addresses.
> 
> > Any advice would be great - very nervous about new OS and mythtv
> > versions as myth is our only way to watch tv - I don't want to ruin
> > anything.
> 
> As long as you have that full backup of the current system, you won't 
> lose everything.  At most, you'll lose things you do after the backup 
> was made (if you end up realizing later that the system is broken and 
> it's easier to go back to the backup than to fix the issues with the 
> broken/upgraded system).

Thanks so much Mike... about to do it tomorrow - finally got machine up
and running except for the last bit of moving the cards, the database,
and the drive (though it is shared from the exisitng machine at the
moment, so it shouldn't matter)

The only little thing I noticed is that the password for the old machine
for mythconverg is different that this machines... does that matter?  Do
I need to change on one of the machines, and how?

Thanks again!
--kris