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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 7:57 pm 
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Hi,

I've had a very stable R4V2 system running for over a year. I finally got my new 400GB drive in from Newegg and I'm ready to rebuild the system and take it up to R5A16.

I can do without the recordings themselves, but I'd like the tables of all the shows we've already seen to be moved to the new machine, so it doesn't start recording things we have already watched.

Does anyone know which tables, and if its possible (ie have they changed since R4V2) I would need to reimport in order to maintain the record of what has already been recorded?

Thanks.

-Jeff

PS - It will otherwise be a fresh install, rather than an upgrade of any kind, as I want to bring the system up to date.


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Auto Upgrade. Backup first.


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I wrote a thread about this very topic here

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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:48 am 
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Thank you gentlemen. I'll give this a try today.

The only lingering fear I have is getting my serial IR transmitter going again, but I know a lot of people have posted on that topic already.

-Jeff


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backup copies of your config files. That has been important for my upgrades. Sometimes you fix things that you forget how you really ended up fixing. So having copies of config files that you modified, like your lirc files, you XF86, apache and any modules you may have modified to get things the way you want them. I would aslo save a copy of your fstab file for reference. The back/restore/auto upgrade will take care of recordings... be sure to get the rest. :)

Good luck.

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From an earlier post:
Quote:
- A hint for folks, before an upgrade I run the following
Code:
apt-show-versions | awk '{print $1}' | sort >/myth/backup/olddebs

and then after the upgrade (and possibly installing it ;-)) I run
Code:
apt-show-versions | awk '{print $1}' | sort >/root/newdebs
diff /myth/backup/olddebs /root/newdebs 2>&1 | more

This gives me a good handle on what packages I'd added to the previous install.


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