[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure

[Paul Stillwell]

Hi,

One of my hard drives that has recordings on it failed last night. The drive that failed is a brand new drive that I put in to replace an older drive (I replaced a smaller capacity drive with a bigger capacity drive). I had copied over the recordings from the smaller drive to the bigger drive so I still have the recordings from the smaller drive available (except for anything new that may have been put on the bigger drive). My question is this: if I back up the database, get a new drive to replace the failed one, and copy the smaller drive recordings to the new drive, will the 'find_orphans.py' script find any of the old files that got copied over (that had been watched and deleted in the time period between when I copied them onto the bigger drive and now) and allow me to remove them?

I think it will, but I'm not sure. Is there anything else I should do?

Paul