Tvheadend

When you stop/shutdown Tvheadend, its configuration is written to disk. (And when you start it, its configuration is read from disk ...)

• accesscontrol – These are the user/access settings
• backup – When you start a new version of Tvheadend, the old settings are saved into a compressed tar archive and placed into this directory
• bouquet – This is where the bouquets are stored
• channel – These are your channels (not to be confused with services)
• dvr – These are the DVR settings and logs (including previously recorded programs)
• epggrab – You EPG grabber settings
• imagecache – If you are using the imagecache feature, the images are stored here
• input – This holds the configuration for your networks, muxes and services; also, the settings for you hardware adapters are in there as well
• passwd – This is the password information for users in the accesscontrol directory
• profile – These are your profiles: that includes streaming, recording and individual stream profiles
• timeshift – Timeshift settings

You can selectively copy out the directories with the information you want to backup, but I would recommend doing it while Tvheadend is not running: that way all of your settings and changes will be written to disk and be saved, waiting for you to archive them.

That sounds good. But now I have to ask a dumb question : How do I stop tvheadend in Ubuntu?

The same way you started it: sudo systemctl stop tvheadend

Thank you very much. But I think the most important folder is missing in .hts >the backup folder. It looks like this:

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Sylvio Egal wrote:

Thank you very much. But I think the most important folder is missing in .hts >the backup folder. It looks like this:

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If you haven't upgraded Tvheadend, there won't be a backup folder. Backups are only created when you start Tvheadend and it detects a configuration folder layout from an earlier version. If you haven't upgraded, then there's no need for a backup.

OK.
And if I would install another distribution and copy the .hts folder to the same place, tvh would be the same as before, with all my settings and channels?

Sylvio Egal wrote:

OK.
And if I would install another distribution and copy the .hts folder to the same place, tvh would be the same as before, with all my settings and channels?

Essentially, yes. I have done this numerous times. However, you may want to remove the folders relating to some settings that are different. (For example, if your physical tuning hardware changes, you may want to remove the folder relating to that specific hardware from the input/ folder.)

is this really a feasible solution?
tvheadend development is not maintaining a stable version anymore.
So for up to date linux distributions e.g. Debian bullseye you can only use unstable which will often change.

So if you are using unstable repro to install tvheadend and then restore the files mentioned above, it is very likely that the files are not compatible because they have been created with a different tvheadend build.

Please correct me, if am wrong.

Martin Klayer wrote:

is this really a feasible solution?

So if you are using unstable repro to install tvheadend and then restore the files mentioned above, it is very likely that the files are not compatible because they have been created with a different tvheadend build.

I have done this and it works. TVHeadend will read the older config files & update to the newer format when required.

Thanks!