[ubuntu-mythtv] Accessing recordings from previous installation (0.24)

[Eric Shubert]

On 01/25/2012 07:44 AM, vince wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 20:50:01 Eric Shubert wrote:
>> I recently rebuilt my mythbuntu 11.10 (mythtv 0.24) backend. I have
>> recordings from my previous host (also from 0.24) stored on a separate
>> drive (/mnt/stor1/recordings) which no longer show up as recorded programs.
>
> Did you backup all of your database from the old system by exporting all
> tables and then inport the old tables into the new one?
>
> [If you can, I strongly suggest you do so. Such scripts are within the
> mythtv's but I cannot remember exactly where but if you do a search on
> database backups on the mythtv forums you will find them as well as
> instructions in their usage].
>
> If not, then you will not get access to the recordings and more importantly,
> have all of your recording rules, what programmes you have previously recorded
> and watched etc, so will have to start again recording previous programmes .
>

It appears that a re-install of mythbuntu using the option to keep old 
settings doesn't include the database. :(

Thanks to both Vince and Brian. I had just begun using the former 
backend, so there wasn't anything there that I can't live w/out. I will 
be keeping track of database backups most carefully in the future. :)

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'