[mythtv-users] Disaster recovery

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/24/2020 05:14 AM, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 24/02/2020 09:18, Andy Smith wrote:
>> Lost the OS disk on my back-end in the week.  Fortunately, 
>> recordings, videos and crucially, a database backup from the weekend 
>> are all intact on a separate disk.  This was all running on Xubuntu 
>> 18.04 with Mythv 0.29/fixes and a Hauppauge WinTV-QuadHD-DVB.
>>
>> Replacement root disk arrived and I have rebuilt the OS.  Am I right 
>> in thinking that I just follow these steps (without going into 
>> myth-setup):-
...
>> then stop the backend, import the database  backup using 
>> mythconverge_restore.pl, restart the backend and I should be good to go?
>
> For database restore may need --drop_database --create_database
> add --verbose to the mythconverg_restore.pl command line (will show 
> what it is doing along with any errors).

Will need.  :)

Mike