[mythtv-users] .22RC Moving the art directories?

[Doug Vaughan]

Question: "Can one use the move features of Jamu be used to move videos 
from non-storage groups to storage groups?"
Answer: Yes

First Jamu must always be run on a MythTV backend as it needs local RW 
access to files and their directories. Of course NFS shares are 
considered local by Jamu. So if you want to move files from a local 
directory to a storage group that is local to the MythTV backend you are 
running Jamu that should work.

If the directory you are moving the video files from has the exact same 
path as is currently in MythVideo the existing MythVideo records will 
just be updated with the new Storage Group relative path for both Videos 
and graphics files. If not then new MythVideo records will be added and 
you would need to do a MythVideo scan to purge the old duplicate entries.

You can experiment with Jamu without risk by adding the option -s 
(simulation) for example:

./jamu -MIFVs "/local/video/dir" "/local/video/storage group"

This would SIMULATE:
1) Moving the video files to the local storage group directory
2) Rename if required renaming the video files
3) Update MythVideo and also download missing metadata and graphics
The -V option for verbose will let you see all the actions that would 
have occured if this was not a simulation.

For the example above if any of the involved directories are on NFS 
shares add the -N (NFS override) option. As such:

./jamu -MIFNVs "/local/video/dir" "/local/video/storage group"

The Jamu move functionality can be very powerful in re-organising a 
video collection without trashing all your MythVideo metadata.