[mythtv-users] Copy from one mythbackend to another?

[Robert Tsai]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:51:03AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Paul Pick wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I'm going to be travelling with a laptop and would like to take
> >some recorded programs with me. I could copy the nuv files and play
> >them outside of mythtv but I was wondering if anyone had done
> >backend -> backend xfers of programs (without losing metadata like
> >commflag) as I would prefer to watch the recordings in a frontend.
> >If so then would you like to share the script?
> 
> I want this too....  I've not had a chance to write any scripts, but
> I di dthink about the process a bit...  You basically dump the
> database, read it into mysql on the laptop, and copy over whatever
> videos you want...
> 
> The big problem is that my carputer  only has room for about 60 GB
> of stuff; I can't fit everything....  So ideally I want to
> intelligently copy only the most recent and the most watched videos,
> and parse the mysql database to remove those not copied...
> 
> I still haven't figured out how to get the 'most watched' data out
> of myth....
> 
> There's also some juggling of NFS mounts to get stuff copied, but
> that shouldn't be much of an issue...

I think nuvexport has a mode to dump the required SQL ...

--Rob
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