[mythtv-users] Moving recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/25/2009 07:08 PM, Johnny wrote:
>> I'm in the process of moving a bunch of recordings (500+ GB) to a different
>> drive before I transfer the drive out of my backend.  Both paths are already
>> set up as paths for recording in mythtv-setup.  Do I have to stop the backend
>> before I do the transfer, or can I leave things running?
>>     
> Are you moving or copying. You wouldn't want to move a recording in
> progress. Also I would recommend using rsync. That way you can stop or
> restart without losing your progress in case something happened.
> Moving 500 GB can take a while. Also you can keep recording and run
> rsync one more time just before you switch to catch any of the latest
> recordings/changes.

and can use --progress to get the progress on both the current file and 
the total files to be copied.

Mike