[mythtv-users] Storage issues.

Justin Dunn jd2660 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 23 14:00:18 UTC 2010


On 11/23/2010 7:50 AM, Wieslaw Kierbedz wrote:
> W dniu 11/23/10 2:34 PM, John Drescher anonsuje::
>>> 3) Is there any way/hack to move recordings from one backend to 
>>> another?
>>> Now I know only to create mytharchive disk and import it in another 
>>> backend.
>>> But that is to sophisticated to move really big recordings database.
>> If you have the storage on both backends in the storage group you can
>> just move the files. I have done this more than a few times.
>>
>>
> ???
> Could You explain?
> You mean - simple move the files?
> How can I move info into database?
> Of course I have storage on both backends but (of course:)) that are 
> completely different backends and different computers.
> The one thing I can do is to mount directories via nfs and add these 
> dirs  in setup as storage directory in another backend.
> But what about titles/descriptions from mythconverg?
The database only stores the recording file name and storage group.
When a file is accessed mythtv searches all the storage group 
directories for the file to load. So that search would find the file 
when you moved it.


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