I'm almost embarrassed to post this because of some stupidity on my part but here goes... Over the weekend I experienced a somewhat sudden and what looks to be an unrecoverable hard drive crash on my boot / root drive on my MythTV back-end system. I had a fairly recent database back-up from when I upgraded my system from 0.21 to 0.22 but unfortunately (and foolishly) I left the backup not only on the back-end system, but also on the root drive that crashed. I dug around my other systems and I did manage to find a previous database backup from earlier in the year when I did a hardware upgrade. Fortunately (I hope) I did not lose any of my active recordings because they were being saved to either another local drive or an NFS mount on my NAS server.<br>
<br>So, now I am trying to figure out how to proceed. My first question is is it worth it to even attempt to use the database backup from earlier in the year? The biggest thing I dread is re-setting up my channel lineups. I haven't done much with the channel setup since 0.20 / early 0.21 days, but I remember it to be a fairly time-consuming, very much manual process. Have things improved in this area so that it would now be a trivial / painless process? I'm particularly interested in QAM channel scanning for the HDHR and pcHD3000 tuners.<br>
<br>Second, once I have MythTV set-up again is there any way for me to get the recordings that I still have back into the database? I did a search of the mailing list archives and came up with a few older hits mentioning the <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black"><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black"><a href="http://myth.rebuilddatabase.pl">myth.rebuilddatabase.pl</a> script, but at least one reply seemed to indicate that it didn't really update the database.<br>
<br>Any help with these questions and/or any other constructive suggestions would be appreciated.<br><br>Thanks,<br>John<br><br></font></font>