[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Kenneth Dixon <kenneth.b.dixon at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Rob Connolly <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm gearing up to do a full reinstall of my Mythbox since my nearly two
>> year old arch system is feeling increasingly fragile (I haven't touched
>> it in months because every time I do pacman breaks something).
>>
>> The plan is to go completely the other way and install debian
>> stable + backports + debian-multmedia. That should hopefully make it
>> stable and maintainable for the forsessable future. I've also invested
>> in a RAM upgrade and an SSD and after some of the issues I've had with
>> HDD write speed (documented on this list), I'm going to ditch LVM+EXT4
>> and go with XFS on my RAID 1 array.
>>
>> As far as I can tell the backup/restore process looks fairly simple for
>> myth, just backup/restore the database and recordings.
>>
>> I was wondering if there are any gotchas I should look out for? Or any
>> tips that anyone can pass on to speed up the process?
>>
>> I'm also hoping to try out XBMC as an alternative to mythfrontend, since
>> I see it now has mythtv integration and also integrates with MPD.
>> Can anyone comment on how well the PVR functionality works?
>>
>

I would use mythbuntu instead of debian. Their repos with -fixes are the
reason. Also there are great ppas for xbmc.
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