[mythtv-users] Delete and rerecord question

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Thu Feb 21 05:26:44 UTC 2013


>
>  It looks like one of my hard drives crashed last night. I removed it
>> from the fstab so that it wouldn't get mounted when the system boots up.
>> When I start mythfrontend, I get all these recordings that are greyed out
>> and have an X next to them. I was going through the recordings and choosing
>> "delete and rerecord", but then I thought I *might* be able to recover the
>> recordings from the drive. If I am able to recover the recordings, what
>> would happen if I put them into a valid storage group (that works) on
>> another disk in the same system. Will they show up correctly?
>>
>> Not if you've told myth to delete them they wont. But if you leave
>>
>> them alone, retrieve the files, and put them in a different storage
>>
>> group folder on the working drive, myth should be able to find them
>>
>> just fine.
>>
>> Right.  The ones you haven't yet deleted can be put in any directory in
>> any Storage Group as long as it's visible to the same host.
>>
>>
>> If you have deleted some of the ones you end up recovering, you can put
>> them in Video Library (ideally after changing their file names so that
>> Video Library can pull metadata -
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing ).
>>
>> OK, thanks for the advice. If I am able to recover the recordings, should
>> I put them all in a storage group and let find_orphans.py remove the ones
>> not associated with anything in the database? I'm running 0.25.3 so I think
>> find_orphans.py works with that version.
>>
>>
>> Yes, that would be the easiest way.  And, in theory, find_orphans.py
>> should work fine with 0.26, too.
>>
>>
>> Should the mythtv web page (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py)
>> be updated to reflect that it works with 0.26?
>>
>
> Check to make sure there isnt an entry in your 'deleted' recording group
> before you start getting too wild.  Marking them to delete and re-record
> doesn't mean they have purged from the database yet.  You may be able to go
> in there and move them back into another recording group... once you
> recover the files they should be fine.
>

Oops, just wanted to emphasize that you will want to do this soon, I'm not
sure how your system is configured to purge the deleted items; hopefully
it's not too late.
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