[mythtv-users] Does .25 still use find_orphans.py

Zarthan South zarthan at gmail.com
Sat May 5 17:22:18 UTC 2012


On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Jones
<jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On May 5, 2012 11:39 AM, "Brent Bolin" <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael T. Dean
> > <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > > On 05/05/2012 10:40 AM, Brent Bolin wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Or has that been replaced/included
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py says it's compatible with
> 0.25
> > >
> > >
> > >> I find myself running this at least once a week to clean up orphaned
> > >> snapshots and occasional mpg files.
> > >
> > >
> > > However, if you actually need to run it frequently (where once a week
> is
> > > extremely frequently), there's a serious problem with your system.  It
> > > should only be required when you have a hard drive failure (or if
> someone is
> > > deleting files outside of MythTV, in which case, you should fix the
> > > behavior, not the symptom).
> > >
> > > Mike
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> >
> > What should the permissions be on /var/lib/mythtv dirs
> >
> > ubuntu 10.04 .24 fixes
>
> Like you I am running .24 in  Ubuntu which I installed as mythbuntu and it
> (I think) includes JAMU.  I have a lot of my recordings set to transcode
> and hence those recordings get a new extension. I have a lot of orphaned
> snapshots everything I run mythlink. They all appear to be snapshots
> retrieved before or during transcoding.  I assumed that was just a timing
> issue and nothing really fixable.
>
> Is this what you are experiencing?
> I'm not sure about the permissions. Mine has mythtv as the owner and
> group.
>
> Jeremy
>
I also transcode my recordings but as part of my userjob for transcoding I
rename the existing snapshot files to match the new filenames. I saw
someone mention that myth does a better job of making snapshots of the
mpeg2 files than it does with mp4 files and it eliminates orphans. I also
move the original mpeg2 files to another location in case the transcode job
had issues and then use a cronjob to expire those files after two days. I
occasionally run find_orphans and very seldom find anything.
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