[mythtv-users] Retiring slave backend / migrating recordings to master ?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/27/2012 02:12 PM, Tom Flair wrote:
> Sometime in the next month, I'm planning on retiring my SBE.  This 
> comes after previously switching the role of this backend from MBE to 
> SBE last year.
>
> I'd rather not lose the recordings that I have on these drives and I 
> *really* don't want transfer the data over the network or even doing 
> an rsync to the array on the MBE.
>
> I want to check my logic well in advance before I follow through.
> As I understand it, I should be able to migrate the existing drives 
> and set them up as another storage pool for recordings.  Based on the 
> hashes for the recordings, the MBE should pick up that the previously 
> remote recordings on the SBE are now on the MBE and all should be good.
>
> Does that sound about right?  Am I missing a step or understanding the 
> storage pools wrong?

You've gotten good information from Raymond, but here's some more info:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration#Retiring_an_old_backend

I /highly/ recommend doing it the "If you still have access to the 
to-be-retired backend system..." approach--it's /much/ easier.

Mike