[ubuntu-mythtv] Accessing recordings from previous installation (0.24)

[Brian VanMeeteren]

You can't just backup your recordings, you have to backup your mySQL 
database as well.

-Brian


On 01/24/2012 03:50 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I recently rebuilt my mythbuntu 11.10 (mythtv 0.24) backend. I have 
> recordings from my previous host (also from 0.24) stored on a separate 
> drive (/mnt/stor1/recordings) which no longer show up as recorded 
> programs.
>
> I've changed the default storage location in the backend to point to 
> this directory, and new recordings are going there, but the old ones 
> aren't showing up anywhere.
>
> I found the http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_video_scan.py script that 
> is for 0.24, but when I run it as the mythtv user, It simply says 
> "Performing Scan ..." then ends without adding anything.
>
> My python skills are not quite good enough that I can tell what the 
> problem is. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get this script to 
> work with my configuration?
>
> TIA.
>