[mythtv-users] Storage issues.

[Justin Dunn]

On 11/23/2010 8:00 AM, Justin Dunn wrote:
> On 11/23/2010 7:50 AM, Wieslaw Kierbedz wrote:
>> W dniu 11/23/10 2:34 PM, John Drescher anonsuje::
>>>> 3) Is there any way/hack to move recordings from one backend to 
>>>> another?
>>>> Now I know only to create mytharchive disk and import it in another 
>>>> backend.
>>>> But that is to sophisticated to move really big recordings database.
>>> If you have the storage on both backends in the storage group you can
>>> just move the files. I have done this more than a few times.
>>>
>>>
>> ???
>> Could You explain?
>> You mean - simple move the files?
>> How can I move info into database?
>> Of course I have storage on both backends but (of course:)) that are 
>> completely different backends and different computers.
>> The one thing I can do is to mount directories via nfs and add these 
>> dirs  in setup as storage directory in another backend.
>> But what about titles/descriptions from mythconverg?
> The database only stores the recording file name and storage group.
> When a file is accessed mythtv searches all the storage group 
> directories for the file to load. So that search would find the file 
> when you moved it.
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After checking out John Drescher's post it appears there is a hostname 
field in the database too, I didn't know that.
I would guess that limits the storage group search to just a specific 
backend and if the file is not found there, the search looks at other 
backends.