[mythtv-users] moving information between slave backends

[Roger Heflin]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/07/2008 03:26 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> You can move the recordings and then put symbolic links to were the recordings 
>> have moved to (so longs as all of the disks can be seen at the same locations on 
>> all machines), I have done this in the past before storage groups existed, and 
>> it works decent, just don't run the mythrename command as it will only rename 
>> the links and not what is pointed at and you will have a real mess.
> 
> Though, really, running mythrename.pl and not specifying --link (i.e. 
> saying, "Don't rename the files, but create a directory of links 
> providing a view of the files") makes a real mess, even if you don't 
> have links.
> 
> Mike

Mike,

I know that *NOW*, the first time I tried it, I did not.

Since then, I use the --link option and that works quite nicely, without it 
things get interesting.

                          Roger