[mythtv-users] Contemplating a major change

[Mike Carron]

Thanks. I think I have the necessary config files on a USB memory stick 
but it won't hurt to double check. LIRC definitely is one I will need.

I was hoping the database schema update that 0.27 does when it first 
starts up would take care of any new or modified tables.

mike

On 4/5/2014 1:45 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>
>
> On 5 Apr 2014, at 5:14 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net 
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>
>> I'm planning a major upgrade of my system, from Mythbuntu 
>> 12.04/fixes/0.25 to Mythbuntu 14.04/fixes/0.27. At the same time I'm 
>> also planning to rearrange the entire file system so that I have a 
>> relatively small (64gb) system ssd a 250gb ssd to mount /var and a 
>> 4tb hardware RAID volume for /home where I plan to keep all of my 
>> storage groups and some other stuff.
>>
>> My plan is to backup my database to an NAS, and copy all of my 
>> storage group directories to the NAS, do a new install of Mythbuntu 
>> 14.04, copy the storage group directories to /home, restore the 
>> database, make sure the directories I set with mythsetup are correct, 
>> and go. Have I missed something vital?
>>
>> -- 
>> mike
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> Don't forget any custom scripts that you might have. Also maybe grab 
> any configuration files, there will be one for mythweb and possibly 
> one for MySQL. LIRC?
>
> Also thinking off the top of my head - grab a copy of any custom 
> theme(s) you might have.
>
> Take care with host names, may need to use mythconverg_backup.pl to 
> change hostname(s) in database if you want to keep your previous settings.
>
> Going from 0.25 to 0.27 will you need to add the time zone table to 
> the database? I don't recall exactly when that was added now but I 
> suspect it will be necessary. Some settings may then need to be 
> modified to allow for UTC time.
>
> No doubt there will be permissions to correct when you move the media 
> files back in to the new storage group folders but that should be 
> pretty straightforward.
>
> Are you reusing existing SSD's? Keeping the old system disks intact so 
> you can swap them back in if you happen to have forgotten something 
> can be a nice fallback.
>
>
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