[mythtv-users] Master/slave backends - swapping roles

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 18:59:26 UTC 2016


Hoi Johan,

Wednesday, December 21, 2016, 7:26:05 PM, you wrote:

> Dear all,

>         the subject might be a bit misleading as I am not after a role swap feature.
> What I want to do is making my current slave backend the new
> master, and then decommission the old master.

> That would obviously mean installing myth web on the slave, etc.
> Moving and altering the database..

> The master has no tuners anymore, except an unused network recorder.
> Did anyone ever do that before and documented it? A search through
> the mailing list and an internet google did not get me anywhere yet.

> Or is it as simple as removing the pointer to the master in the
> slave configuration and adding mythweb? 

> Thanks for hints/tips or references if this has previously been discussed.

> Johan 

I think it is as simple as stopping both and running mythtv-setup on
the previous slave and change the ip address for the master to its own
address.
Mythweb is a completely independent thing.


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