Hi Ross Boylan,
please consider making backups of your mythtv database, although in your case it
will be for future upgrades to not mess up your database.
There is a backup script that comes with mythtv, have a look at:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
Use it as part of your backup cycle or as standalone solution on a daily/weekly
basis.
Regards,
Tilo
PS: I managed it to keep my database since nearly 7 years running on different
hardware, distributions and of course mythtv versions.
| Total Running Time: 6 years 11 months 9 days 18 hrs 16 mins
Am Samstag, 11. August 2012, 20:38:24 schrieb Ross Boylan:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:11 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > Ross Boylan <ross@???> writes:
> > > Should the myth, as packaged, make a backup of my database before
> > > upgrading? On the myth list someone said myth does, but I can't see
> > > one anywhere (from 0.24.2 to 0.25).
> >
> > Nothing. This feature should be managed by mythtv.
>
> I think this means the deb packaging/install scripts do nothing, but the
> upstream code that makes a backup should be intact. Is that right?
> Notice my question was about myth as packaged, not just the packaging
> for myth.
>
> > > A lot went wrong with the upgrade, including an initial failure to
> > > connect to the database (I believe by the deb install scripts) and then
> > > an inability to upgrade the database schema.
> >
> > Packages doesn't modify any schema database. All database schema are
> > managed by mythtv.
>
> Again, I assume this means the packaging scripts down't modify the
> schema, since the program itself does.
>
> I think my current problems are mostly a result of running out of space
> and the upstream code, with the only packaging element being that I was
> able to avoid reinstalling the mythvideo package because it's separate.
>
> Here's what I think happened:
> 1) install 0.24.2, including the mythvideo package, and run out of room
> on disk in the middle of mythvideo running DoVideoDatabseSchemaUpgrade()
> code in dbcheck.cpp of mythvideo.
> 2) remove packages and expand disk.
> 3) Reinstall 0.24.2 packages, NOT including mythvideo.
> 4) run this for awhile.
> 5) Upgrade to 0.25, with various problems. In particular it detects
> that mythvideo.DBSchemaVer is at 1011, while the minimum acceptable for
> upgrade is 1016.
>
> I think I'm going to try reinstalling the 0.24.2 packages, including
> mythvideo, and run them in hopes of moving the mythvideo schema into the
> present. Then I'll try the upgrade again.
>
> Ross
>
> Ross
