Get old confuguration from SD card?

[david1234]

Hello,
I had a working zoneminder server until my PI stop working
the SD is working ,
but now I want to use stornger computer (and not PI3)
is there any way to see the camera setting I have used? (fps,path,etc...)

I looked at
/etc/zm
but no data about the cameras there , just for the server

so can I found this config file somewhere?

*** I don't have another PI in order work on with the same SD ....
Thanks ,

[Magic919]

If you can grab the MySQL database, it'll have most of what you'll need.

[david1234]

I think I can
I get access to the all SD
can you explian to me what to do ?

Thanks,

[kitkat]

If you have mysql/mariadb installed then you could try:

- Stopping zm and mysql/mariadb

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systemctl stop zoneminder
systemctl stop mysqld
systemctl stop mariadb

- Renaming or moving the folder /var/lib/mysql to keep it safe

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mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.bak

- Copying the old /var/lib/mysql folder over from the SD card.

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cp -pR /old/var/lib/mysql /var/lib/

- Starting mysql/mariadb

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systemctl start mysql
systemctl start maraidb

- Exporting the old ZM database

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mysqldump -u oldzmuser -p oldzmdbname --no-create-db > old_zm_db.sql

(adjust for your user and database name, and enter the old ZM user's database password when prompted)

Then do the same thing again in reverse to restore the current mysql data: Shut down the database; move, delete or rename /var/lib/mysql; copy or rename the original saved one back to its old place; start the database server:

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systemctl stop mysql
systemctl stop mariadb
rm -fR /var/lib/mysql
mv /var/lib/mysql.bak /var/lib/mysql
systemctl start mysql
systemctl start mariadb

Then create a new database and import the old tables into it:

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mysql -u zmuser -p
create database zm_old;
use zm_old;
source old_zm_db.sql;
exit;

I haven't actually tried this and there may be missed steps or easier ways to do it but something along those lines should work. You''re probably going to need add sudo to quite a bit of that as well unless you're root,

[david1234]

Thank you very much for the help!