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I thought I was doing something smart but it sounds like I might not
be using best practices. If I can use the recording group entries in
the backend to point to /home/mythtv/recordings . . . and some
future update/upgrade won't change it back to "factory default",
thus breaking my setup . . . that would solve my problem nicely. I
am fairly new to Linux and MythTV and really like both. I appreciate
all the help from those of you with more knowledge/experience.
Thanks.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/20/2014 01:56 PM, Justin Alcorn
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:24 AM, jim
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<div id=":1jr" class="" style="overflow:hidden">My
recordings are not stored in /var/lib/mythtv/recordings.
The actual recorded files are stored in
/home/mythtv/recordings with only symbolic links in
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings. That allows my MythTV config
to remain unmodified (this may provide some protection
from breakage of my setup due to updates/upgrades) and
keeps all the user data in /home.<br>
I wish to still be able to run <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://mythlink.pl"
target="_blank">mythlink.pl</a> with a couple of
modifications, one of which is to have it link to the
real files, not the links.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">wait. You have symbolic links in
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings? Are you doing that outside of
MythTV? Don't. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Mythlink.pl looks up the file name in
the database and links to it. It can handle multiple
recording groups. There's no need to specify a source
directory...unless you are moving files around. Don't do
that. Use bind mounts if you have diskspace problems, or even
better, use a recording group to put the recordings in
/home/mythtv/recordings.</div>
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