[mythtv-users] Moving older TV recordings to disk on network machine.

[Brian Wood]

On Jun 30, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

>
> On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 06/30/2006 09:40 PM, Lachlan McIntosh wrote:
>>> Has/does anyone sucessfully moved older recordings to a disk on
>>> another
>>> machine, but done this in a way that it is possible to still
>>> access the
>>> recordings from the watch recordings list?
>>>
>>> I have a samba share mounted on my machine as wanted to "archive"
>>> shows
>>> that I want to keep but don't watch that often to a Windows server
>>> with
>>> a large amount of free disk space.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or ideas?
>>
>> myth_archive_job.pl in contrib
>>
>
> Agreed, it works great, I use it all the time.
>
> One thing to be careful of though, if you move a file and then later
> transcode it (say to remove commercials) the link in the original
> directory will be replaced with the transcoded file itself, leaving
> the original file in the archive directory even after you delete the
> transcoded file. Not a real problem as long as you're aware of it.
>
> This may have been corrected by now, I'm running an early 0.19  
> version.

Also: Be sure to enable "follow links" in your F/E setup, otherwise  
it will just delete the link and leave the file in the archive  
directory alone.