[mythtv-users] Mythbackend suddenly deleting everything marked for deletion including unwatched

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/31/14, 10:02 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Discussion,
>
>   Some two hours ago I had the weirdest thing.
>   I was watching a recording and when it finished it sprang as usual
>   back to the list (unwatched recordings) and I saw some recordings
>   marked as unfindable. If had that before and restarting the viewer
>   solved it. But not this time. All recording not marked to keep where
>   gone, including a few unwatched and the one I had just watched.
>   When I realised what had happend I took the backend and the volume
>   offline. I'm now running an undelete with ext4magic on everything
>   recorded the last month, which seems to go fine. I only had first to
>   create space to store the files. The deleted files are some 180 Gb
>   and what I,m now undeleting is something in between a quarter and a
>   half of that, but I probably only want to restore the unwatched
>   ones.
>
>   Anybody an idea how this happened and how to restore the recordings
>   to the database. I could restore the database to last night, but
>   that leaves today out.
>
I've gone to mythweb and found pending deletion programs there.
But, if you have zero set for retaining programs, you may be SOL (Sh*t
Out of Luck).

That said, we know nothing of your distribution/OS, version of MythTV or
other configuration of your MythTV.