[mythtv-users] Can mythrename.pl work with multiple storage locations?

[Jon Larson]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/16/2007 02:59 PM, Jon Larson wrote:
>   
>> I'm running 20.2--so I don't use the multiple storage locations feature 
>> in SVN. I have three backends each with their own local recording 
>> storage, and I use a 'crossbar' architecture of NFS shares so that each 
>> BE has access to all recordings.
>>
>> This works well enough for scripts, but it's somewhat problematic when I 
>> want to access a particular recording directly via NFS/SMB share, since 
>> I have to hunt through each servers' recordings to find the desired file.
>>
>> I'd like to run mythrename.pl with the --link function and have it 
>> create an 'aggregate' folder with symlinks pointing to multiple BE's. 
>> The problem is that mythrename is programmed to only operate locally, 
>> and to delete existing symlinks in the target dir (which prevents me 
>> from just running it once on each machine).
>>
>> Has anyone done this already, or can anyone provide suggestions?
>>     
>
> Comment the line that deletes the symlinks and make a script that calls
> mythrename.pl with appropriate arguments.  On one host, make that script
> delete the directory structure containing the links, then run
> mythrename.pl.  On all other hosts, ensure that mythrename.pl runs a
> minute or so after it does on the first host and don't delete the links.
>
>   
Thanks Michael--that sounds like just what I need...

Jon
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