[mythtv-users] Delete and rerecord question

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Thu Feb 21 05:24:40 UTC 2013


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>
> It looks like one of my hard drives crashed last night. I removed it from
> the fstab so that it wouldn't get mounted when the system boots up. When I
> start mythfrontend, I get all these recordings that are greyed out and have
> an X next to them. I was going through the recordings and choosing "delete
> and rerecord", but then I thought I *might* be able to recover the
> recordings from the drive. If I am able to recover the recordings, what
> would happen if I put them into a valid storage group (that works) on
> another disk in the same system. Will they show up correctly?
>
> Not if you've told myth to delete them they wont. But if you leave
>
> them alone, retrieve the files, and put them in a different storage
>
> group folder on the working drive, myth should be able to find them
>
> just fine.
>
> Right.  The ones you haven't yet deleted can be put in any directory in
> any Storage Group as long as it's visible to the same host.
>
>
> If you have deleted some of the ones you end up recovering, you can put
> them in Video Library (ideally after changing their file names so that
> Video Library can pull metadata -
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing ).
>
> OK, thanks for the advice. If I am able to recover the recordings, should
> I put them all in a storage group and let find_orphans.py remove the ones
> not associated with anything in the database? I'm running 0.25.3 so I think
> find_orphans.py works with that version.
>
>
> Yes, that would be the easiest way.  And, in theory, find_orphans.py
> should work fine with 0.26, too.
>
>
> Should the mythtv web page (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py)
> be updated to reflect that it works with 0.26?
>

Check to make sure there isnt an entry in your 'deleted' recording group
before you start getting too wild.  Marking them to delete and re-record
doesn't mean they have purged from the database yet.  You may be able to go
in there and move them back into another recording group... once you
recover the files they should be fine.
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