joe.borne at gmail
Aug 21, 2008, 12:09 PM
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Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 73
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> Joe Borne wrote:
> > I'm going to be migrating from 0.20 to 0.21 soon and at the same time
> > undertaking a hardware reconfiguration and change of OS. I have
> > everything else mapped out and planned well and I feel very confident
> > in the migration.
> >
> > One piece remains though that is uncharted territory for me as I am
> > not much of a MySQL expert, or very knowledgable about databases in
> > general. I need to know if it's possible to migrate my MythTV database
> > data by backing it up and restoring it. I've done this before, but
> > only in a 0.20 to 0.20 situation and I know there are significant
> > differences in 0.21.
> >
> > So, has anyone done this? If so do you have documentation?
> >
> > The best thing I have found so far is here:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc23.5
> > and following the directions up through 23.7
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance everyone.
> Hi
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> As long as you create and restore the database before you install 0.21
> it will upgrade the database schema automatically
>
> cheers
>
> Dunc
>
Unfortunately, the target OS here is Mythbuntu 8.10. So it necessitates a
migration of data directly into a 0.21 database that will be installed with
Mythbuntu.
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