[mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

Paul Kidwell tmb at ieee.org
Fri Jan 14 11:34:22 EST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Alfter
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:11:37AM -0500, tommy wrote:
> > Well my friends, I'll tell you WTF!!!!! remember yesterday when I ran the
> > recorded programs version of the cgi script? well it seems wget spidered
> > the links on recorded_programs.php, sounds innocent enough until you
> > realise that the last link on every line is DELETE!!! Yes my friends, the
> > script went through and deleted my ENTIRE BOX!!!
> >
> > Over half a terrabyte of television GONE!!!
> >
> > The entire season of Rescue Me, GONE!!!!!
> > A couple of seasons of The Shield, GONE!!!!
> > Every episode of Lost, GONE!!!!
> > a couple of seasons of Enterprise, GONE!!
> > You get the picture...
>
> That's why you offload TV shows onto DVD instead of keeping them on the HD
> forever.  (Admittedly the stuff that's out there for making DVDs under Linux
> isn't all there yet, but I've gotten fairly good with a handful of Windows
> programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my MythTV.)

Which is what I was planning on doing, but it didn't work out that way. I
installed a pair of 200Gig drives into my win2k box set up as a mirrored Raid
array. (I'd recently had yet another disk crash and I didn't want to loose
*anything* anymore)

Well...  Authoring the DVDs was going slower than the .mpg files were coming in.
I filled up 200Gig rather quickly. and a friend talked me into converting my
array into a "striped" RAID array. So now I had 400Gig. Which quickly filled up
to 350Gig of recorded programming...

Needless to say, it only took a month for one of the brand new drives to crap
out :(

Paul



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