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

jacek burghardt jaceksburghardt at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 06:09:02 UTC 2014


I would recommend placing hard drive in two ziplock bags and then in
freezer for 12 hours and then just copy all files off


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Jeremy Jones <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jeremy Jones <
> jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
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>>> On 6/27/2014 7:46 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> 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.
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>>  'deletia'
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>>  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.
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>> Solved.  Thanks Raymond. Your statement was just the clue I needed.
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> Here is the process:
> Run mythlink with a flat directory structure on the naming convention so
> that all the links show up in the same directory.  The using Thunar (other
> file managers are probably similar) sort the view by the 'Type' column,
> which contains the links actual location.  Then its just a matter of
> scrolling down to the links that are on the drive in question to start the
> search.
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> Jeremy
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