[mythtv-users] Question about /storage
Phusion
phusion2k at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 13:21:21 UTC 2010
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 02:09 AM, Stef Coene wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Kenni Lund wrote:
>>
>>> 2010/1/18 Phusion:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering if after installing MythTV 0.22.2 under the setup for
>>>> storage directories I could set it to another directory like /data
>>>> instead of /storage. If so do I need to copy the directories that
>>>> already seem to be under /storage and also change ownership? Is there
>>>> anything else I need to do to change it to /data for example.
>>>>
>>> No, you don't need to do anything else. If you copy your current
>>> directories and files with the cp command with the -a (archive)
>>> argument, all files and directories will keep their current permission
>>> and ownership, eg:
>>> cp -a /storage/* /data/
>>>
>> Better is to use "rsync -auHv"
>> It will sync all the files and keep it all the permissions, soft links, hard
>> links, ...
>> And you can restart if something went wrong.
>>
>
> Even better, throw in a --progress and you can see how long of a lunch
> break to take while it copies your terabytes of data (or, maybe, how
> long of a vacation).
>
> I completely agree that rsync is the way to go, but IMO, it's because of
> --progress.
>
> Also, I'd recommend that no one ever use rsync unless they first use the
> --dry-run argument. Look for the messages in the archive about people
> losing all their recordings because of getting the command-line wrong in
> rsync.
>
> Mike
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Thanks for the information.
Phusion
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