[mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv
Dan Kressin
dkressin at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 6 22:32:13 UTC 2013
>From: Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv
>
>
>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.
Thanks for the info.
I verified that /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg exists and contains quite a bit of stuff, and a backup taken "now" (post backend removal) seems to be schema 1254 (vs 1214) *and* is ~21MB, similar to my other backups. So I'm reasonably sure my data is safe. I will proceed with installing mythtv-backend-master this evening and see how it goes. Worst case, I do have a filesystem backup of the 8.04 system.
-Dan
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