[mythtv-users] Adding new 1 Terabyte Drive and Moving existing Recordings

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

> How do you copy it? a simple "cp -a " won't get the boot stuff will it?

OK, let's recap: 

Currently, your system has a single 500gig drive, boot, recordings, and 
videos.

You want the 1TB to store recordings, and the 500gig for videos.

Assuming this is correct, I would recomend leaving boot on the 500 gig 
drive, moving only recordings to the 1TB. Having the SQL database on a 
different drive from recordings is a good idea because of all the 
read/writes going on for recordings. Videos on the SQL drive, on the other 
hand, doesn't have nearly the impact.

As others have said, rsync is a great way to actually copy the files.

Rather then try to make up an example, if you post your actual current paths 
where recordings/videos/etc are stored I'll try to come up with some 
specific suggestions.

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