<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 02/12/12 09:22, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>
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On 02/12/2012 6:25 AM, "Mike Perkins" <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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Okay. So I've discovered that one of the two 500Gb drives in my recording<br>
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storage group is failing, enough that I'm getting jumps during playback and<br>
indecipherable error messages in dmesg.<br>
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I've ascertained that there is enough auto-expirable files in the system<br>
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that I can run on one drive until the newly-ordered ones arrive next week,<br>
so I've pulled the SATA cable. It's not comfortable, but doable, and the<br>
alternative is writing fresh recordings to a dying disk.<br>
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My question is, how does the system react when you take half the<br>
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recordings away? They are all still present in the database, but is there<br>
any indication that they are or are not available for watching?<br>
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I think there is a script you can run somewhere which you can run and it<br>
will prompt you to sync database with whatever recording files exist. I<br>
can't remember what it's called but someone else will surely know.<br>
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Well, fine, but my intention is to try and recover what I can off the dying disk when the new ones arrive. (I won't do this from within mythtv, but on another box.) I'll simply copy from the two old disks to the two new ones and then install the new ones at the original mount points. With any luck mythtv might not even notice :)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Have you considered some flavor of RAID? This will protect you from annoying and inevitable drive failures.<br>