<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Ian Barton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@manor-farm.org">lists@manor-farm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">John Welch wrote:<br>
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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>
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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>
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Just a thought, but have you tried booting from a Live CD and trying to mount the crashed disk. You may be able to read /var/lib/mysql.<br><font color="#888888">
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Ian.</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the responses so far. Hoping to get my new drive today, and will be starting the rebuild process when it arrives. I did try booting from a live USB drive but the BIOS on the system isn't even recognizing the drive anymore. Also tried moving the drive to another system and booting from the live USB drive there, but on this system I can't even get past POST with the drive connected. Still might try a few more things, but that's why I said "what looks to be an unrecoverable hard drive crash" in my original post. <br>
<br>Definitely plan on adding scheduled backups to another system / drive.<br><br>Thanks again,<br>John<br><br></div></div>