[mythtv-users] Moving recordings...

[Fred Squires]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> Had a conversation w/someone about moving recordings from my MBE to my SBE
> machine.  He said "no go".  So I'm turning the question onto you guys to see
> if there is any hope...
>
> My MBE is in need of HDD rearrangement.  So I bought a new SATA HDD and soon
> discovered I was out of SATA ports on the MBE.  So into the SBE the new HDD
> went.  However, my plans to move recordings from the MBE to the SBE are up
> in the air.  Evidently, the new feature which allows mythtv back ends to
> "find" recordings no matter what directory works only if all recordings are
> confined to a particular machine.  That is, *not* across different back
> ends.  Or, perhaps, I've interpreted the feature incorrectly.  Thoughts?
>
> ...thanks

It'll work if you add them to the same storage group (via nfs or smb)
on your master backend. Of course, doing that will double your network
usage, because the system will have to transfer the recordings over
nfs to your master backend then stream then to your frontend. You
could mount the nfs share on the frontend to get around that, as long
as you backend isn't set to always stream recordings.

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