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<p>Hi David,</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure if that procedure will work for me as I was planning to just remount the /myth volume as /media/myth.</p><p> </p><p>When you say move the recordings, should this be done within the mythtv interface or will it work if they're moved by the filesystem level?</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave.<br /> </p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> David Watkins <watkinshome@gmail.com><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Thu 09-02-2012 10:47<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] Relocating recordings storage directory<br /><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>; <br />On 9 February 2012 06:57, Mailing Lists <lists@the-pearsons.co.uk> wrote:<br />> HI,<br />><br />><br />><br />> I currently have all of my recordings stored in a directory called /myth/tv,<br />> I would like to be able to relocate them to another folder - /media/myth/tv.<br />><br />><br />><br />> Obviously I need to make some changes in the mythconverg database to point<br />> everything at the new location, can anyone tell me an easy way of changing<br />> the locations in the database, so that all of my existing recordings can be<br />> accessed in the new location and all new recordings will be stored there<br />> too?<br /><br />If you are running a recent version of MythTV then the recording<br />directory will be part of a storage group. Storage groups are managed<br />using the mythtv-setup program.<br /><br /><br />So<br /><br />backup your database just in case.<br /><br /><br />stop mythtbackend and run mythtv-setup.<br /><br />On the main menu select Storage Groups and then the Default Recording<br />Group. You should see your existing recording directory /myth/tv<br />there.<br /><br />Add your /media/myth/tv directory to the same group.<br /><br />Save and exit mythtv-setup and restart the backend to make sure you<br />can still see your recordings. At this point you should be able to<br />freely move recordings between the two directories and myth will find<br />them whichever one they are in. New recordings will be created in<br />either of the two directories to balance storage and drive access<br />resources.<br /><br />So when you've moved all the existing recordings and you don't have an<br />active recording in progress go back into mythtv-setup and remove the<br />old directory from the storage group.<br /><br />Probably read this first too<br /><br />http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br /></blockquote>
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