[mythtv-users] Cleaning up database

Mike Carron jmcarron at starstream.net
Sun Oct 12 23:55:45 UTC 2014


On 10/12/2014 03:41 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>
>> On 13 Oct 2014, at 7:49 am, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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>> Over multiple iterations of installing different FE configurations I have a lot of obsolete configuration data in the database. Is there a simple way of cleaning it out? I don't do MySQL and I don't trust myself to mess with the contents directly.
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>> -- 
>> mike
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>> _______________________________________________
> Short answer: no. Long answer: even directly manipulating the database to do this is strongly discouraged by the devs but if you really really wanted to someone can probably give you some mysql commands to run. Recommend you back up first.
>
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I'm not going to directly manipulate the database. Backup idea: Is it 
possible to export recording rules from an existing database to a new 
one? I don't mind creating a fresh database on a new MBE but I don't 
want to lose my recording rules, reconstructing them is a pain.

mike



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