[mythtv-users] Moving recordings...

[Fred Squires]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Fred Squires wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> Had a conversation w/someone about moving recordings from my MBE to my
>>> SBE
>>> machine.  He said "no go".  So I'm turning the question onto you guys to
>>> see
>>> if there is any hope...
>>>
>>> My MBE is in need of HDD rearrangement.  So I bought a new SATA HDD and
>>> soon
>>> discovered I was out of SATA ports on the MBE.  So into the SBE the new
>>> HDD
>>> went.  However, my plans to move recordings from the MBE to the SBE are
>>> up
>>> in the air.  Evidently, the new feature which allows mythtv back ends to
>>> "find" recordings no matter what directory works only if all recordings
>>> are
>>> confined to a particular machine.  That is, *not* across different back
>>> ends.  Or, perhaps, I've interpreted the feature incorrectly.  Thoughts?
>>>
>>> ...thanks
>>
>> It'll work if you add them to the same storage group (via nfs or smb)
>> on your master backend. Of course, doing that will double your network
>> usage, because the system will have to transfer the recordings over
>> nfs to your master backend then stream then to your frontend. You
>> could mount the nfs share on the frontend to get around that, as long
>> as you backend isn't set to always stream recordings.
>
> I thought you could put them in any storage group and mythtv would look for
> them in each and fail only after not finding the recording in any of them.
> Of course, I've been known to be wrong before but trying it would be really
> easy. :)


Honestly, my answer could also be wrong.


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