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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Stephen,

Saturday, February 1, 2014, 4:11:52 AM, you wrote:


> 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.
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I'm running Gentoo with Mythtv 0.26.0_p20130922  The backend
installation is a few month old with kernel 3.10.7

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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