I tried to upgrade to R5B7 from R5A30.2, I ran mythtvbackup before hand, I ended up having a bad CD. I put the drive in an external USB drive, and used Explore2fs to copy all of /myth on my Windows Drive. I made a new CD of R5B7 after checking the md5sum. After install I ran mythtvrestore but it didn't restore my database, I eneded up going and resetting all of my recordings and channel lineups. The only thing is I had a few files in /myth/tv I tried "/usr/local/bin/myth.rebuilddatabase.pl --try_default" but it doesn't work. What else can I try? I still have the backup from mythtvbackup. Thansk for the help.

HunterMcDole

The backup that you had in /myth/backup should still be there unless you did something silly. Go look at that directory and make sure it's there. If it is you should be able to:

- Boot off of your good CD and use the "testcd" option to make sure that it really is good.

- Do an auto upgrade.

Everything _should_ come back.

OBTW - What does this show?

If you see hda3 rather than hda4 that may be your problem...

I did a autoinstall, and then copied the data from my windows bax back to /myth/tv but it can't get it to locate those file. Is there a windows program to convert the .nuv to .mpg?

You need to learn to follow directions. tjc told you what to do. Here are the steps agian:


1) Copy back the contents of /myth/tv and /myth/backup
2) Boot off the CD and run Autoupgrade

It should find the database in /myth/backup and restore all the data for your recordings.

so your saying I should run upgrade again? Since there seems to be some miss understandings I will list the steps I have taken.

1) downloaded R5B7
2) Tried to do an auto-upgrade (Failed to load X windows)
3) Tried an auto-upgrade again (L 99 99 99 99 99 99)
4 ) did some trouble shooting found /boot had lots of 0 kb files
5) put in USB drive and copied /myth to XP box
6) downloaded R5B7 again and checked md5sum this time
7) Did an auto install
8.) copied "/myth/tv" and "/myth/backup/mythtv.tar.bz2" back to box
9) Ran mythtvrestore multiple times(no response)
10) Tried "/usr/local/bin/myth.rebuilddatabase.pl --try_default" (resulted in error)
11) Redid all recording schedules
12) came to forum to ask how to retrieve the old recordings.

At this point I would like to be able to get the recordings so I can run Nuvexport and encode as a .asf file (only settings that works for me..)

There is no misunderstanding.

You must restore the entire contents of /myth/backup/ along with /myth/tv. Also perform an autoupgrade.

This procedure will read the stored database from the /myth/backup directory so you can access the files in /myth/tv. If you have LILO problems (which is known to happen some times) you can either:

1) Re-autoupgrade until LILO installs correctly.
or,
2) Boot off the CD. Press <ctrl><alt><f2> to access a terminal. Manually reinstall LILO if you know how. Reboot.

It worked thanks, btw does the CD have a function to check it's files like red hat?

Use "testcd" as a boot option.

Thanks again