[mythtv-users] export/import of selected MythTV data

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 12:41:24 AM Nick Morrott wrote:
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, I'm sure Jerome wants his oldrecorded
> (history) and record (rules) tables backed up?
> 
> The recorded table is for current recordings, which he's already said are
> not important.

That's right. But now I've seen the light, and it seems no one else has 
tried such a thing. So I tried the standard route using a VM and minus a 
display issue after mythtv-setup a backup of the converted database looks 
whole and coherent. So I'll create new threads for what happens as I dry-
run the conversion while I wait for a cut-over opportunity next Monday.

Aside: I don't know how important it would be to users of pre-0.24 
databases, and how many of them are out there, but paging through the 
script that a DB backup really is, it seems to me that someone motivated 
and enterprising could take mythconverg_backup.pl and the schema changes 
between releases and create a mythconverg_convert.pl or somesuch that built 
the script to create a database "backup" that matched the schema for a 
psrticular release. After all, it's all just text. 

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A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca