http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... hTVFromSVN

Does this WIKI page show every needed command line step?
Are there any missing files or directories that need to be backed up?
Does this list the full set of commands needed to restore the backed up files and directories?

What I don't want is to get halfway through the process and find that the writer had gotten lazy and left out a step or wrote a step in psudo-code rather than actual valid command line text.

Verification appreciated!
Eric

(If the Wiki page is incomplete, could someone update it with the necessary command line steps so it IS complete?)

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I always approach any project like this with the idea that I may have to re-"upgrade" to the the same version. Make a backup, verify it, then start the experimentation. The "restore" is just running the auto upgrade.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10117

If you've got lots of extra disk space, ashtonp had instructions and scripts for how to backup everything other than /myth to simplify this kind of recovery.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10353

I saw in one of the posts you just cited that the TJC backup scripts are included in R5C7 already.

Does that mean that the BACKUP button in the KnoppMyth menu does all this already?
And the RESTORE button in the KnoppMyth menu does a full restore using the TJC scripts?

Again, does the Wiki page include all the necessary update steps - including all steps necessary to restore the KnoppMyth menus etc.?

Thanks,
Eric

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The "vanilla" R5C7 scripts are indeed ones I did and which are discussed in that posting. They are complete for doing an auto-upgrade. They do not restore extensive customizations such as installing extra packages, configuring webmin, ... The backup and restore buttons run these scripts, but I would strongly urge you to run them from the command line and check the validity of the backup before you depend on it.


The backup instructions given there do not look complete to me. That is why I pointed you to the ones ashtonp wrote. On the other hand, they're better than nothing, and would also work for people running older versions of KM.

BTW - if you aren't comfortable running things from the command line and verifying that they haven't gone off the rails, or combining multiple written procedures and making the adjustments needed to glue them together, then upgrading from SVN probably isn't for you. You're working with code straight from the developers version controll system. Patches may fail to apply, It may fail to compile, it may fail in nonobvious ways and corrupt your DB. The chances that you're going to have to go "off script" and improvise are fairly high.

Thanks for your info on backups, TJC. There seems to be 1 main script in each of those posts you referenced. Do they each backup different things - so you should do both of them?

Does Cecil plan to incorporate one of your "complete" system backups into KnoppMyth in the next release?

From what I've read on the SVN fix-ticket list, there are many things that are being fixed (transcoding, XvMC, the Myth DVD player, as examples) in the 0.20 release. I'd be nice to have more parts of Mythtv working. You know?

Yes, I am a bit hesitant to do an SVN update and want to make sure I know what I have to do for success before spending a weekend doing it.

Perhaps I should use Ghost and copy the whole hard drive to another hard drive as my backup? Then, I could go back to a working R5C7 by simply swapping hard drives and rebooting.

Eric

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