[mythtv-users] Saving a recorded show to another location

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:37:44 -0700, you wrote:

>If there a straightforward way to copy a recorded show to another location,
>i.e. a flash drive or network drive that's not configured as a storage
>group? I know you can go into the storage group partition and hunt for it
>but that's hard to do given the file naming conventions mythtv uses and a
>lot of recorded shows.

What are you trying to do by moving the file?  You can just move
recording files anywhere you like.  If the file is no longer found on
a storage group, MythTV will flag that it can not be found but will
cope with that without any problems.  You can also have links to
recording files that rename them - there are scripts like mythlink for
that:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl

Or you can export a copy of a recording along with its related
database by using mythexport, and then use mythimport to import the
copy into another MythTV database.

Original Mythexport and Mythimport (works with older MythTV versions
only):
  https://launchpad.net/mythexport
  https://launchpad.net/mythimport
 https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythexport&searchon=names
 https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythimport&searchon=names

My updated Mythexport and Mythimport (compatible with 0.28 and 29):
  http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythimport.html

The export/import process only works with compatible database
versions, so leaving around a set of exported recordings will not be
useful if the destination database gets upgraded to a version that has
any changes in the recording tables.