<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Kenneth Dixon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.b.dixon@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenneth.b.dixon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Rob Connolly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@webworxshop.com" target="_blank">rob@webworxshop.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
<br>
I'm gearing up to do a full reinstall of my Mythbox since my nearly two<br>
year old arch system is feeling increasingly fragile (I haven't touched<br>
it in months because every time I do pacman breaks something).<br>
<br>
The plan is to go completely the other way and install debian<br>
stable + backports + debian-multmedia. That should hopefully make it<br>
stable and maintainable for the forsessable future. I've also invested<br>
in a RAM upgrade and an SSD and after some of the issues I've had with<br>
HDD write speed (documented on this list), I'm going to ditch LVM+EXT4<br>
and go with XFS on my RAID 1 array.<br>
<br>
As far as I can tell the backup/restore process looks fairly simple for<br>
myth, just backup/restore the database and recordings.<br>
<br>
I was wondering if there are any gotchas I should look out for? Or any<br>
tips that anyone can pass on to speed up the process?<br>
<br>
I'm also hoping to try out XBMC as an alternative to mythfrontend, since<br>
I see it now has mythtv integration and also integrates with MPD.<br>
Can anyone comment on how well the PVR functionality works?<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>I would use mythbuntu instead of debian. Their repos with -fixes are the reason. Also there are great ppas for xbmc.<br>
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