[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.23 backend suddenly auto-expired a ton of recordings...

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Brett Kosinski <fancypantalons at gmail.com>wrote:

> My system has been sitting at about 30GB of about 1TB free (this is
> the minimum I set for Myth) for quite a while.  But for some reason,
> starting mid-afternoon on August 11th, for a period of 7 hours, the
> backend decided to expire over *250GB* of content.  Some of it was
> very old, some of it recorded in just the past week (thank goodness
> this didn't happen during the fall or winter season), as recently as
> the 6th.  All the entries simply say this:
>
> 2010-08-11 20:51:15.799 Expiring 2463 MBytes for 1043 @ Thu Aug 5
> 13:00:00 2010 => <recording name>
>
> But there are some recordings that are older than that, so it's not
> like it hit a whole swath of stuff over a range of dates.
>
> So, has anyone encountered this before, or seen reports of it?  I
> searched my archives of mythtv-users, and nothing obvious popped up,
> but I may have missed something.  Heck, even some suggestions on what
> to look for would be helpful, as this is rather alarming, to say the
> least.
>

Typically this is the result of MythWeb being internet accessible and
outside contact deleting files.   Any chance of this?

Kevin
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