[mythtv-users] Moving recordings between MythTV systems

[Mike Perkins]

On 01/09/16 21:34, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Mike,
>
> Thursday, September 1, 2016, 10:20:53 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I built up a fresh Mythbuntu 16.04 0.28 system as a test case before
>> migrating my production system to 0.28. I would like to add the
>> recordings from the production system (backed up to NAS) to the test
>> system database. The NAS directory containing the recordings backup is
>> already mounted on the test system. Is there a way to make it happen?
>> I've been trying to find info on it but there doesn't seem to be
>> anything newer than 2008 or so.
>
>> Hope someone can help.
>
>> mike
>
> The only real option is importing them into the video database. I
> think there is a wiki article about how to do this.
>
I don't think so. The only thing that is going to be different is the database. Providing that 
recording files aren't deleted, so that the information gets out of sync, running a test database 
against the NAS should work.

Any subsequent recordings made on the old system wouldn't show up on the test system, but the test 
system will just ignore them.

So, just backup your database, copy the backup to the new system and restore. Of course, you should 
do this before running mythtv-setup so that setup can do any required upgrades.

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Mike Perkins