[mythtv-users] Best way to move recordings to tier-2 storage

[Tom Lichti]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I record to the local drive(s) in my mythbackend, but occasionally, I feel
> the need to move some of this content to my NAS which has more capacity.
> Looking for advice on the best way to accomplish this.
>
> I have mythvideo set up to use a NFS-mounted file system on the NAS.  I've
> been using the mythrename script to create meaningful file name links, which
> I then copy over to the mythvideo directory.  The problem is, I get really
> sparse metadata within mythvideo, which I can sorta overcome if create the
> right filename or path structure for mythvideo to go discover, as documented
> here:  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
> I thought about using storage groups, but I don't really want to ever record
> to the NAS, which could happen based on my understanding of how myth
> prioritizes local and remote storage groups.
>
> It looks like mytharchive has the ability to archive a recording to a "file"
> rather than an optical drive.  I haven't tried this yet, but I wonder how
> well this scales if I wanted to archive a whole season of 30 Rock or
> whatever.
>
> What I would really like to do is select a recording or a bunch of
> recordings, and in one or two clicks, be able to "archive" the recordings to
> the NAS, complete with the rich metadata that I get from the original
> recording(s).
>
> Suggestions appreciated.

Any reason why you don't want to record direct to the NAS? I
exclusively do that, and it works great.

Tom