[mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/05/2013 11:32 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> It looks like you have a good backup (today at 06:36)... just back it
> up to another machine to be extra safe.

But first verify that it looks sane--i.e. it's some number of megabytes 
large.

You may also want to manually back up what you have in the database, 
now.  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore (which 
works with any version of MythTV), and see if you have other backup 
files (including, especially, old ones) that are about the same size.

The main reason for checking is because it's possible that something 
wiped your database at some point in all the changes that were being 
made, and if you just blindly save the latest backup, you may save a 
backup of a nearly-empty database (meaning you'd lose all your real 
data).  As a matter of fact, I'd find all the backups and put them 
somewhere safe, anyway.

Mike