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

[Joseph Fry]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Dan Kressin <dkressin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>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.
>

I would use the mythbuntu-desktop metapackage.  It may install more
than  you need.. but depending upon what triggered the removal, you
might need those things... and it might make a difference when
upgrading next time as the mythbuntu packagers use it as the key
meta-package for all mythbuntu installs.

Compare http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/mythtv-backend-master to
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/mythbuntu-desktop