[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[David Lowe]

Any comments or suggestions? How about marriage guidance? ;-)  

 

I reckon we all need your partner's email address so that we can write in
support of your sterling efforts at making a seamless transition and to
explain that things don't always go according to plan. "This is not just a
matter of reprogramming a VCR or replacing a fan belt" we would say..

 

Would that help?

 

-          David

 

PS I did read somewhere that you don't want different versions of MythTV
around because of the 0.21 upgrade to the database. I reckon you should be
safe enough to take everything up to 8.04, as long as you do all back and
frontends at the same time.

 

 

 

From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Toby Mills
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 4:57 p.m.
To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: [mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

 

I have a very unique opportunity next week in that my partner is going to be
away on business for the whole week (party at my place).
This generally only happens once a year so its my only real opportunity for
serious 'scheduled maintenance' on my Myth and Asterisk systems, including
any software / hardware upgrades and hardware cleaning etc that is due.

I'm currently running an old version of knoppmyth on a dedicated backend and
mythbuntu 7.10 on several frontends.
The system has to be bulletproof, one missed program and my life isn't worth
living 

Its been very stable for the last year with only one problem when I ran out
of disk space on the backend.

Anyway, I want to pick brains on my best approach.

Should I install 7.10 final on the server as well and wait for the final
version of 8.04 then upgrade everything to 8.04 over the wire.
Or should I go for 8.04 beta and then upgrade to final when it comes out in
a few weeks.

My big concern is that if I go with 7.10, then doing an upgrade while my
partner is here is quite a big risk to take if anything goes wrong or breaks
as its a big jump.
While if I install 8.04 beta then I have all week to get it going, but if
anything breaks in between when she gets back and when the final version
comes out in a few weeks, then that could be just as bad.

Are there any issues with the upgrade path from 7.10 to 8.04 final (I want
to do it all while the system is running so no cd reinstalls etc).
Is it possible to upgrade 8.04beta to the final version without having to
reinstall from CD.

Ideally I want to make all my frontends diskless as well, so my preference
is probably to start on 8.04 beta and then make the short jump to 8.04 final
as soon as it comes out.

Any comments or suggestions?

Regards
Toby

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