[mythtv-users] migrated footage only plays on combined FE/MBE
Robert
RobertCL at iname.com
Wed Feb 4 11:12:13 UTC 2009
On Wed, February 4, 2009 7:44 am, Glen Hawksworth wrote:
> hi all,
> I have just migrated my myth server. I deleted enough TV until it all
> fit on my 1000GB drive and then put that drive in the new server.
> The new server records to two directories, one on the system HDD (500GB)
> and one on the 1000GB. I can access all my old TV on the new server but
> I get "The file for this recording can not be found" on the remote
> frontends around the house.
> I have been working on it for about 24hrs now and consequently have some
> new recordings on the 500GB drive. All my remote frontends can watch
> this "new" TV and still can't access the old stuff.
> What I have done:
>
> * chown all old footage to mythtv:mythtv (same with the directory
> including chmod the directory to match the system HDD one)
> * chmod all old footage to rw-rw-rw- (I noticed that the new
> footage has rw-rw-rw for the png files and rw-r--r-- for the mpg
> files. This shouldn't make a difference should it?)
> * tried mounting the 1000GB as "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings2" but
> no difference (I did of course change it in the backend setup as
> well)
> * tried reconfiguring samba and nfs from Mythbuntu Control Centre
> (sometimes this resulted in intermittently being able to access
> the old TV on remote frontends but not my secondary backend with
> frontend. Using the GANNT theme if the program is in grey text
> you can't access it. On the frontends that intermittently worked
> I could get the footage to play by exiting "Watch Recordings"
> and then going back in. However sometimes after scrolling
> through the shows they would turn grey leaving only the new
> recordings white)
> * tried mounting the 1000GB as /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Drive2
> (other recording directory being changed
> to /var/lib/recordings/Drive1) because I noticed in the smb.conf
> and /etc/exports that Mythbuntu Control Centre had only shared
> recordings and not recordings2. This had no change; no access on
> secondary backends frontend and intermittent access on the other
> frontends.
> * I just (now) tried reconfiguring samba and nfs on the server and
> now all frontends (except the one on the server) only access new
> video and no longer (even intermittently) access the old video
> (but I haven't restarted any systems yet - gotta go to work
> now)
> * The only other variable that I can think of is that the 1000GB
> drive has been mounted by fstab using the line
> "/dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Drive2 xfs defaults 0 0"
> but I can't think how this would affect network browsing. Is
> there a better way of doing it that I should be using?
>
> I must have forgotten a step because this is not the first time that I
> have migrated my server.
> Any help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Glen
Have you updated the Recorded table in your database to reflect the new
hostname? (Assuming your hostname has changed). I seem to recall having
to do this. (And also spending hours trying to work out what was wrong)
Robert.
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