[mythtv-users] Hardware Setup Advice

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 02:06 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mark Boyum wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mike wrote a really nice way to deal with storage groups and having an
>>>> Archive storage group that Mythtv didn't write to.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/516083#516083
>>>
>>> I can vouch for that method working well as I had to use it recently.
>>> It allows you to record to one directory and then move the recordings
>>> at your convenience to slower storage, a NFS mount in my case.  This
>>> was done manually in my case but could probably be scripted pretty
>>> easily.
>>
>> do you have to change file permissions with this method? I assumed so,
>> but it is sounding like that assumption may have been misguided?
>
>
> Changing permissions will allow you to make the archived recordings
> undeletable from within MythTV--but it's better to do that through changing
> permissions of the recording files rather than the directory (as nothing in
> MythTV allows you to override per-file permissions, even if the directory
> allows it).  Other than making a recording undeletable, changing permissions
> has no benefits as long as you ensure none of your recording rules are set
> to use the Archive Storage Group (meaning that MythTV will never attempt to
> write recordings to it).  By not preventing MythTV from writing to the
> Archive Storage Group directories, you will allow it to write other files,
> such as preview pixmaps, that you probably do want.  (You would also be able
> to transcode recordings (though transcoding will ultimately fail since
> MythTV will be unable to delete the original file, but future versions of
> MythTV will eventually be able to "successfully" do transcoding, even when
> they can't remove the original recording file).)
>
> Mike

So by the recording rule not writing to the Archive group, it prevents
MythTV from attempting to delete a recording from that rule that is
now in the Archive group? I guess that is where my confusion in this
lay, and I'd hate to see one of those recordings deleted.

thanks!

-- 
Steve
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