[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure

[Paul Stillwell]

On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Brent Bolin wrote:

> Can find_orphans.py be used with .26 ?
> 
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 01/01/2013 03:06 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah.  Just put the directory/directories containing the recordings from the smaller drive into any of the Storage Groups and MythTV will find those recordings.  If MythTV can find the recordings, find_orphans.py will not show them as orphaned.  It will, however, find any other recordings for which you have missing files (i.e. those that were recorded to the new/big hard drive before it failed) or files for which you no longer have recording metadata (i.e. those shows you watched and deleted after moving recordings to the new/big hard drive before it failed).
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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Good catch! I'm currently running 0.25.3, but plan on updating to 0.26 soon so hopefully once I get my drive back in working shape then I will not need the script for a while.

Paul