[mythtv-users] Record, flag commercials, then move to NAS

[Don Lewis]

On 12 Feb, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 10:14 PM, Marco Quezada wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, I will look into the rsync command. I would like to mention that in
>> the script I posted above that the mount point for the destination is at
>> /data so that as mentioned earlier the move will fail if the directory is
>> not mounted. Also, the script adds the slashes to the path in case they
>> were not specified when the script was called. I will also look into the
>> ionice and size allocation.
>>
>> -Marco
> 
> Rsync is definitely what you want to use. It has a number of switches to 
> check for existing files, over-write/ignore, delete when moved, even 
> delete dest before move (for overwriting a new file with the same name: 
> good for daily recordings) etc.

I use rsync for moving recordings between drives when I upgrade a drive
to something larger.  I use the --bwlimit switch to slow down the copy
so that it doesn't interfere with in-progress recordings or playback.