[mythtv-users] DB manipulation

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Greetings mythizens, I'm considering taking a DBbackup form a functional
> > 0.27 myth setup in a 12.04 ubuntu desktop environment and restore it to a
> > 0.27 mythbuntu with 14.04 ubuntu desktop setup. Does it matter that the
> > "localhost" names do not match?
> >
> > Everything I've read about dropping and restoring is pretty dated 0.22,
> not
> > to mention scary. Is it really as easy as MCC makes it look?
> >
> > The two systems are on separate drives, a 1TB with the OS and an
> extension
> > with the recordings and a 250GB with the new OS. Will the new OS find the
> > recordings on the 1TB drive? (assuming they are both connected, as yet I
> > boot one or the other)
> >
> > thanks Daryl.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> You want the names to match.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
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Would it work to create the backup, restore it to the new system, then "
mythconverg_restore.pl --change_hostname --old_hostname="XXXX"
--new_hostname="YYYY" it?
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