[mythtv] i did a stupid thing

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Wed Jan 23 19:50:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:15 -0500, Mark Buechler wrote:
> If the recordings can all be accessed from your primary backend, run
> the following sql:
> 
> UPDATE recorded SET hostname = "<primary>" WHERE hostname =
> "<secondary>";
> 
> But this is more a mythtv-users question. 
> 
> - Mark.
> 
> On 1/23/08, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
>         i was setting up a USB attached disk and instead of sdb i
>         wiped sda.
>         not in any recoverable way (using dd if=/dev/urandom
>         of=/dev/sda
>         b=102400).
>         oh well. it was my slave server.
>         
>         so why am i airing my stupidity in public, you may well ask? 
>         
>         because when i try to do anything on my backends, they hang
>         when they
>         encounter any recordings from the slave server.
>         
>         so the question is, how do i remove all references to the
>         slave server
>         so that i can at least limp along until i get the slave server
>         back to 
>         where it was (minus any recordings/music/videos/pictures).
>         
>         is there an easy way of doing this or do i just have to poke
>         around with
>         sql?

it is and it isn't
the issue is that the frontend is hanging because the slave backend is
not available
--
simon





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