[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu 16.04 user experiences

Paulgir paulgir at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 04:59:21 BST 2016



>> I have a quick question: are database backups from 0.27 compatible with
>> 0.28?
>
> That depends on what you mean by compatible.  There are quite
> significant changes in the database schema between 0.27 and 0.28, such
> as the addition of a recordedid field as the primary index for the
> recorded table.  So the individual tables and rows from tables where
> there are changes like that are incompatible.  Hence the output of
> mythexport from 0.27 will not work with mythimport in 0.28.  But if
> you do a full restore of a 0.27 database into a 0.28 system, that will
> be detected when mythtv-setup or mythbackend is run, and the 0.27
> database will be automatically upgraded to a 0.28 one.
>
> _______________________________________________

Would the correct procedure for a newly installed Mythbuntu 16.04 be to do  
a full DB restore before or after manually setting up the various settings  
on Myth backend and myth frontend?



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