[mythtv-users] migrated footage only plays on combined FE/MBE

[Glen Hawksworth]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:12 +0000, Robert wrote:

> On Wed, February 4, 2009 7:44 am, Glen Hawksworth wrote:
> > hi all,
> > I have just migrated my myth server. I deleted enough TV until it all
> > fit on my 1000GB drive and then put that drive in the new server.
> > The new server records to two directories, one on the system HDD (500GB)
> > and one on the 1000GB. I can access all my old TV on the new server but
> > I get "The file for this recording can not be found" on the remote
> > frontends around the house.
> > I have been working on it for about 24hrs now and consequently have some
> > new recordings on the 500GB drive. All my remote frontends can watch
> > this "new" TV and still can't access the old stuff.
> > What I have done:
> >
> >       * chown all old footage to mythtv:mythtv (same with the directory
> >         including chmod the directory to match the system HDD one)
> >       * chmod all old footage to rw-rw-rw- (I noticed that the new
> >         footage has rw-rw-rw for the png files and rw-r--r-- for the mpg
> >         files. This shouldn't make a difference should it?)
> >       * tried mounting the 1000GB as "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings2" but
> >         no difference (I did of course change it in the backend setup as
> >         well)
> >       * tried reconfiguring samba and nfs from Mythbuntu Control Centre
> >         (sometimes this resulted in intermittently being able to access
> >         the old TV on remote frontends but not my secondary backend with
> >         frontend. Using the GANNT theme if the program is in grey text
> >         you can't access it. On the frontends that intermittently worked
> >         I could get the footage to play by exiting "Watch Recordings"
> >         and then going back in. However sometimes after scrolling
> >         through the shows they would turn grey leaving only the new
> >         recordings white)
> >       * tried mounting the 1000GB as /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Drive2
> >         (other recording directory being changed
> >         to /var/lib/recordings/Drive1) because I noticed in the smb.conf
> >         and /etc/exports that Mythbuntu Control Centre had only shared
> >         recordings and not recordings2. This had no change; no access on
> >         secondary backends frontend and intermittent access on the other
> >         frontends.
> >       * I just (now) tried reconfiguring samba and nfs on the server and
> >         now all frontends (except the one on the server) only access new
> >         video and no longer (even intermittently) access the old video
> >         (but I haven't restarted any systems yet - gotta go to work
> >         now)
> >       * The only other variable that I can think of is that the 1000GB
> >         drive has been mounted by fstab using the line
> >         "/dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Drive2 xfs defaults 0 0"
> >         but I can't think how this would affect network browsing. Is
> >         there a better way of doing it that I should be using?
> >
> > I must have forgotten a step because this is not the first time that I
> > have migrated my server.
> > Any help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated,
> > Thanks,
> > Glen
> 
> Have you updated the Recorded table in your database to reflect the new
> hostname?  (Assuming your hostname has changed).  I seem to recall having
> to do this.  (And also spending hours trying to work out what was wrong)
> 
> Robert.

You could have something there, previously I called all the MBE
PVR-Server but this time I wanted to keep PVR-Server as the SBE so I
named the new MBE New-PVR-Server. How would I go about changing the name
in the recorded table?
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