[mythtv-users] Changing Storage Groups

[John P Poet]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 01:27:23PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > What would I have to do to move a recording from one storage group to
>  > > another?
>
>  > I do that with mv
>  >
>  > Just move the file and MYthTV automatically will find it.
>
>  Yes, that is correct.  Myth will search all Storage Group directories if
>  it does not find the file in the Storage Group it expects the file to be in.
>
>  > > I don't think there's a way to do it directly from the frontend (would be
>  > > nice if I could just go to storage options and have it move the file over
>  > > for me), so I suppose I have to physically move the file ... what, if
>  > > anything, would I need to adjust in the database?
>
>  Eventually you'll be able to do this from within Myth and eventually it
>  will optionally move files automatically for you in order to keep free
>  space balanced among directories.  I've got the 'move' part of this code
>  working via a new builtin job in the JobQueue, but haven't put in any of
>  the glue for it yet and it's taken a back seat to other things on my
>  TODO list right now.


Does this work across multiple backends?  Been I while, but I thought
I had to edit the DB to change the host.

John
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