Okay, this is what I want to do:
I want to upgrade my hardware (everything but PVR-350 and fx5200) and re-install knoppmyth on the new drive. However, I want to keep all my recorded shows. From reading the forums I know I want to run a backup. However, I obviously also want to backup the .nuv files and "unknown database backup" to my desktop pc.

My question is this: what all do I need to backup to my desktop pc in order to preserve my recorded tv shows. What about already scheduled future recordings?

This has been answered several times, please search the forum.

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Umm, I mentioned I searched the forum, that's how I found the information I had... I just didn't find complete information, which is why I asked my question... Perhaps you can provide a better search string for me? Or a link to the supposed answers?

I did more searching. Everything I have seen is for backup and restore with the same hard drive. I haven't seen anything about backing up and then restoring to a new hard drive and which files need to be saved, put on the new hard drive and then how to restore them to the db...

Condensed version: mythtv backs up everything to the /myth filesystem. To migrate to a new drive, you need to install mythtv and then copy the entire /myth filesystem from the old drive to the new one. Then you can do a "mythrestore" and it will copy the restore stuff from its home under /myth/backup and put it in the MySql data tables. Mythbackup does not actually archive the shows, but they are also stored on the /myth filesystem so if you do the above, you will have your shows and database and all will be in sync.

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Exactly what I needed! Thanks a bunch Liv2Cod