[mythtv-users] upgrade

[Mark Perkins]

> On 17 Aug 2014, at 8:07 am, "Mark Perkins" <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 17 Aug 2014, at 8:01 am, "Mark Perkins" <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 17 Aug 2014, at 6:12 am, "Daryl McDonald" <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Greetings mythizens, The last few attempts at upgrading went badly. I'm a watch and delete kinda guy with a few movies kept for the grandkids. I have a working 12.04 ubuntu /27.3 myth system on a 1TB drive and a second 1TB drive with mythbuntu 14.04 installed and updated. What is the easiest way to get all the settings and configurations including channel lineups onto the new system? How much comes with a database restore?    Daryl
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>> Essentially all the direct MythTV settings and configuration come with the database (provided host name of new system matches the old system or database host name is updated as appropriate). This includes channel lineups and storage groups and the like. Also includes recording history and EPG as at the time the backup was taken.
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>> However user scripts and files that might be referenced and the actual recordings themselves (the MPEG files for example) are not in the database.
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>> Also if your folder structures change you may need to update manually, for example if your storage group folders change name / location. Or if you change to a different distribution for example I think some distributions use /usr/bin and some use /usr/local/bin or something similar.
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> Or to perhaps answer this a different way: if you have a working system and you just want a new system that is faster / bigger storage / extra tuners / new operating system - but otherwise want to keep MythTV exactly the same then you definitely want to be restoring the database to the new system.
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Last one for now! Theme files are not in the database and IIRC you can have a minor hiccup if the theme your old system was using is not present on the new system when you start up after first restore. It's not a big issue (I think) but best to probably make sure your theme is present and working on the new system (with clean empty default database) before restoring the old database.

Also remembering some of your old posts - all your UDEV rules will need to be redone I assume, others may be able to confirm.

Actually - how are you managing the upgrade again? Is this a clean built Mythbuntu 14.04 install from scratch or are you cloning the old system to a brand new disk and then running upgrade?

If the only thing you were trying to do is keep the old hardware but new operating system disk and upgrade to 14.04 you could clone the old disk to the new one (adjusting partitions as needed) then run the Ubuntu upgrader. While YMMV I have used the Ubuntu upgrader on a BE and a FE to get from 13.xx to 14.04 with no notable issues. One had to go through a couple of steps I think (13.04 to 13.10 then 14.04 IIRC) but still worked.

I think you have been battling this upgrade for a little while now, should we go back to step 1 and work out what the best approach is for your goals and then work out a plan to get there?