[mythtv-users] Myth Storage Drive failing

[Ben Kamen]

On 2013-09-05 9:14 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
> You can just unmount the drive and remount it to a new location to
> backup the data (assuming your storage groups point to a folder on the
> drive, rather than the mountpoint itself)... mythtv should continue to
> function fine with the recordings offline.
>
> You could also mount the new drive in the old drive's place, create
> any necessary directories so your storage groups can use it, and
> mythtv will start using the new drive immediately.  Then you can copy
> in the recordings from the failing drive at your leisure.
>
> No real reason to shut the system down.

I ended up doing this.. worked fine. (as I can tell so far)

Since I have my drives mounted by label, I just unmounted, changed the label, removed.
Installed new drive, formatted with label and it mounted right up.

Then I copied the old drive to the new drive using a USB->SATA adapter.

(yea, it was slow. 765GB took about 7-8hrs)

Presto - all done.

Thanks again for the insight.

  -Ben