[mythtv-users] failing hard drive - advice on recovering specific recordings - mythlink perhaps

Jeremy Jones jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 00:01:38 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
wrote:

> On 6/27/2014 7:46 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a failing HDD that will mount and work for a little while.  It
>> has 3TB of recordings on it.  I am looking for a way to target the shows
>> that I want to copy off of it instead of wearing it out trying to copy
>> the whole drive.  I thought about using mythlink and then using the
>> formatted names to pick out the show, but the problem is that I can't
>> tell which shows are on that particular drive.
>>
>> Does anybody have an ideas?
>>
>> I don't want to take the other drives off-line to do this.  Is there a
>> way to add the folder name that the files are in to the mythlink naming
>> convention?
>>
>
> Links are only transparent to applications that are not intentionally
> looking for them.  Any decent file manager, or even 'ls', should allow you
> to see where the links are pointing.
>

So, I should run mythlink then write a small script to delete the links
that are not on the drive I am interested in?  Or am I making it too hard?

Jeremy
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