Moving a MythTV Master backend

This proved to be a whole lot easier than I thought. It required backing up the mythconverg MySQL database on the old system and restoring it on the new one.

   ~ /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl
   ~ /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_restore.pl --filename mythconverg-VERSION-TIMESTAMP.sql.gz

A further step was needed to update the hostname of existing recordings to the new host.

   mysql> update 'recorded' set hostname='peeves' where hostname<>'peeves'

This machine became the frontend at the same time. The i3 GPU support was included in the xf86-video-intel driver from version 2.10. I ended up using 2.11 which had just become available and added the following entry to /etc/portage/package.keywords.

   =x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.11.0 ~x86

posted by James Gemmell on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 at 12:13 | permalink | tags: gentoo, linux, mythtv