[mythtv-users] Using myth.find_orphans.pl with multiple back ends and multiple recordings directories... does this work?

[Nick Morrott]

On 09/05/2009, stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:

>  Does anyone know how well myth.find_orphans.pl deals with multiple back
> ends which have multiple recordings directories?

It should handle storagegroups directories, but you should run it once
on each backend you have (you can specify the backend with the --host
option).

Backup the DB first, and choose the --dryrun option to test the
effects of the script before committing them.

The find_orphans script is (paraphrasing Mike Dean) a hotchpotch of
code that needs reorganising, but it was updated for storagegroups
some time ago, so it's worth trying a dry run.

>  Or, perhaps, can anyone comment if I have damaged the relationship between
> the data base and the recordings now that I've moved dozens of them to
> different recording directories and back ends?

Each new recording is marked with the recording backend's hostname and
the storage group to which it was allocated. Each storage group
records a hostname and directory path. I don't know enough about the
'missing recording lookup algorithm' to say how much searching the
backend carries out across hosts when trying to locate a missing
recording.

Nick

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