[mythtv-users] Need to remove references to dead slave backend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/02/2013 05:04 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:
> I had a slave backend die a few months ago and thought I had cleaned 
> up all the old recordings via find_orphans.py. However that doesn't 
> seem to be the case, as the script is "sticking" on one particular 
> recording which it thinks is still on the old backend. I've gone and 
> deleted it from the GUI on one of my front ends but that didn't seem 
> to help.

Did it just put it in the Deleted recording group?  If so, when you go 
to Deleted recording group in Watch Recordings (MENU|Change group 
filter, Deleted), and delete from there, does it fix it.

>
> From the wiki page at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration 
> step 3 has the mysql syntax that would tell Myth that all the 
> recordings are now owned by my master backend. I assume that once that 
> change is made, Myth will either auto-expire the recordings, or 
> they'll be orphaned recording entries that find_orphans.py can handle.
>
> Is my assumption correct? And is this the best way to remove 
> references to my dead back end? The email thread that spawned the 
> article is about a year and a half old so I figured I'd see if there 
> is anything better than what I'm planning before breaking things. I'm 
> running 0.25-fixes.
>
> Thanks!

If it's not the above, you'll need to do that so that MythTV knows "who" 
owns the recording.  Once done, the recording should be deleted properly 
using any approach (including find_orphans.py).

Mike