I just built a new mythbox and I wanted to transfer my database (I don't care about the recordings).

So I did the backup function, copied the /myth/backup directory to /myth/backup on the new system and did restore on the new system.

All my recordings are listed (obviously they won't work because I didnt' copy the files) - BUT when I go to my upcoming recordings list and previously recorded list, nothing is there.

Did I miss a step?

Thanks!

Yes. You need to copy the actual content files. It's easiest just to copy the whole /myth tree over. Be sure to do it in such a way as to preserve the correct ownerships and permissions. Something like rsync for remote access or cp -a for local mounts should do the trick. See the man pages for more.

Thanks for the help, I used



Where 192.168.2.42 is the IP of my old myth machine and I executed the command as root on the new mythbox. Everything worked like a charm. I did have to go in and delete my capture cards and re-add them to get my upcoming recordings to work.

Make sure you didn't end up with /myth/myth on the target... To copy /myth onto my backup drive I use:

Which produces /backup/myth Ah... I see, you used the trailing slash variation... Never mind...