[mythtv-users] find orphans.py question

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Fri Apr 15 22:49:39 UTC 2011


On 4/15/2011 18:15, Greg wrote:
> On 04/14/2011 03:05 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 4/14/2011 12:00, richard Woelk wrote:
>>> On 4/11/2011 9:56 PM, Greg wrote:
>>>> On 04/11/2011 07:20 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>> On 4/11/2011 18:41, Greg wrote:
>>>>>> My question is why it didn't find the png's?
>>>>> An orphaned snapshot is defined as an image with no matching recording
>>>>> in the database.  A recording will have a basename like
>>>>> 2047_20110410200000.mpg, so any file with '2047_20110410200000' in the
>>>>> name will be presumed to match to that recording and be removed from the
>>>>> list.
>>>>>
>>>>>       Yes, I see that,but i was under the assumption,the script would delete all orphans,including the pgn files...My question is does it?
>>>>>> One other question is why does it target my db_backup's?...I really don't want to delete my backups..
>>>>> It doesn't target the database backups.  Backups are not listed anywhere
>>>>> in the database, so it is not possible for them to be 'orphaned'.  The
>>>>> script is merely listing which ones it has found.  If you look closer,
>>>>> the script offers no option to delete these files.
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>>>>>
>>>>> Other files
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110401043002.sql.gz                         31.3MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110402043002.sql.gz                         30.2MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110403043002.sql.gz                         31.2MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110404043003.sql.gz                         30.3MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110404074419.sql.gz                         31.2MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110405043002.sql.gz                         31.4MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110406043002.sql.gz                         31.5MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110407043002.sql.gz                         31.7MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110410043002.sql.gz                         32.0MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video3/db_backups/mythconverg-1270-20110411170754.sql.gz                         30.5MB
>>>>>        tvserver: /video4/recordings/1006_20110210200000_audio.aac                                  34.6MB
>>>>>                                                                                        Total:     345.8MB
>>>>> Please select from the following
>>>>>       1. Delete other files
>>>>>       2. Refresh list
>>>> As you can see, it plainly lists my db_backups under other files....You
>>>> say it don't offer to delete them...Why then does it say under item 1.
>>>> Delete other files?  Looking at that, one would assume all files under
>>>> Other Files would be deleted....
>> The script on the wiki assumes any file with the string 'sql' anywhere
>> in it will be a database backup file.  If you are running the script on
>> the wiki, those files should not be showing up in the unfiltered list.
>>
>>        dbbackup = []
>>        for f in list(unfiltered):
>>            if 'sql' not in f:
>>                continue
>>            dbbackup.append(f)
>>            unfiltered.remove(f)
>>
>>
>> The 'dbbackup' list they are filtered into are displayed, but not
>> offered for deletion
> It's not that I didn't believe you,I wanted to make sure It wasn't going
> to delete my backups...Thanks for the script and your efforts ....

What I'm saying is that the script, as it appears on the wiki, is 
supposed to filter any filename with 'sql' in it, and place it in the 
"Database backups" group.  If you are running the script on the wiki, 
and those are falling through to "Other files", then something strange 
is going on and I would look into fixing it.


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