[mythtv-users] Storage group for holding recordings but not recording them

[Ian Evans]

On Sep 20, 2016 10:05 PM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/20/2016 02:09 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>
>> On 09/20/2016 01:43 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>>>
>>> Think I'm not seeing this clearly as I'm away from home dealing with a
sick relative but need to do some housekeeping on my mythbox.
>>>
>>> I want to move a handful of recordings to an external USB drive I have
attached to my system. I know I need to add the directory to my storage
groups, but how do I make the directory available to Watch Recordings but
not available to new recordings?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Create a new storage group and give it any name. Add your USB drive to
that. It will look on that drive for recordings to play but will not select
it for new recordings unless you specify the storage group in the recording
rule, which you will not do.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
> See, also:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/535888#535888
>

Exactly what I was looking for. I knew that I had read something like that
in the past when someone was looking to move older but not yet watched
recordings to slower media via a cron job.
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