If you REALLY want to clean up serious cruft, you should do what I plan to do this weekend, which is to NUVEXPORT all your recordings out to NUV and SQL files, trash the database and merge everything back in. Sounds like a lot of work, and it is... but I've been looking at my database and filesystem lately and they don't match. I have more NUV files than I have recordings, so apparently I've got orphaned files out there. I also appear to have a couple of orphaned database entries that show up in NUVEXPORT selector, but have no associated files. I need to clean this up so I'm going to go the export/trash/import route.
Only problem with this is it does mean that I'll have to re-create all my settings again... but that's not a huge problem for me as I have a mostly default setup. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of James Alexander Sent: Tue 6/7/2005 8:34 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Cc: Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Reinstalling MythTV Yes, I've done this before. I just did a complete backup of the mysql database, then restored it once the OS had finished installing, everything worked as you explained it. Here is a link with the relevant commands (if you need them): http://www.rlrouse.com/backup-restore-mysql.html On 6/7/05, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I've accumulated a lot of cruft on my MythTV install, and a couple > things that needs changing, so I want to do a major clean up and the > best way I can see to do this is to reformat the /boot and / partitions, > reinstall Linux and set up MythTV again. But I don't want to lose > MythTV access to the recorded videos I have on /video - I assume if I > make a backup of the database, wipe and reinstall, and restore the > database, I assume I still will be able to access the videos? > > Thanks very much for your help in advance! > > Cheers - Piers > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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