[mythtv-users] myth.find_orphans.pl , why did I ? sob....

[belcampo]

Johnny wrote:
>> Currently trying to recover the recording from the XFS filesystem, guess
>> who also did not have a database backup ?
> 
> I recently lost some recordings when I read the rsync man page a
> little too quickly. I was on xfs and after a lot of searching
> determined that there was not any way to recover the recording from
> xfs. The closest thing would be to find some sort of search of the raw
> disk that could recognize mpeg2 (or whatever format your recordings
> are in), but this wouldn't handle fragmented files even if it worked
> and you would lose all filenames, etc. So on the far off chance that
> you actually found some files they would likely be corrupt and
> wouldn't have names that mythtv relies on.
foremost is an option to do that, if there isn't new data written to the 
partition, changes are you'll get it back. To 'avoid' future 
fragmentation add allocsize=1024m in your mount statement in fstab, and 
a regualar xfs_fsr, which will be very fast done, when above statement 
is added.
> 
>> If I am completely nailed, then perhaps it was about time I had a
>> cleanout, is there are doc anywhere on recreating the myth database, or
>> is it simply a case of dropping it my PhpMyadmin ?
> 
> Why do you need to recreate the database? Do you still suspect
> corruption? Or is this because all of your recordings were deleted?
> Even if the orphaned script deleted the recordings and told the
> database that they were deleted. There is still information in your
> database about what has been recorded and about your recording rules,
> etc. So I doubt you just want to start fresh. If you still want to go
> ahead with that route, then you will want to check out:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore for the proper
> way to do full or partial backups and restore jobs. Also note that you
> will probably want to add mike dean's patch to the script
> (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6013) to avoid any corruption. On
> the up side you don't need to worry too much about corruption when you
> have no data ;-).
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