[mythtv-users] Contemplating a major change

[Mike Carron]

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
>> _______________________________________________
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> 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.
***
The entire project may have been put on an indefinite hold. I have a 
test system running 0.27, still on 12.04, and have come across a major 
issue. I already knew that selling the wife on losing the 'record at any 
time on this channel' option was not going to be easy. Discovering that 
none of the filter options can be set makes it a deal breaker. I'm 
testing with fixes/0.27 with Mythbuntu 28.7 theme and unfortunately for 
me wife was watching when I selected Schedule Options, arrowed down to 
Filters and then arrowed down to 'This Channel Only' and tried to set 
it. I could not find a key on the keyboard that would set that option, 
or any of the other options offered. It was made perfectly clear to me 
that we will be using 0.25 for the foreseeable future.

mike

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