[mythtv-users] Mythlink.pl & Recordings Directory

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/20/2014 03:06 PM, Justin Alcorn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, jim <jim_32766 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:jim_32766 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I thought I was doing something smart but it sounds like I might
>     not be using best practices. If I can use the recording group
>     entries in the backend to point to /home/mythtv/recordings . . .
>     and some future update/upgrade won't change it back to "factory
>     default", thus breaking my setup . . .  that would solve my
>     problem nicely. I am fairly new to Linux and MythTV and really
>     like both. I appreciate all the help from those of you with more
>     knowledge/experience. Thanks.
>
>
> I believe that's what Storage Groups are for - to allow you to specify 
> where to store recordings.  Are you moving them because your /home is 
> much larger than your /var ?
>
> Here are three options:
>
> #1 - Storage Groups, I think. I've never used them, so I'm not 100% 
> sure if that is what they do.

Yes, Storage Groups are the way to go.  Future upgrades will never 
overwrite the 
stored-in-the-MythTV-database-not-in-a-file-managed-by-your-packages 
values you've specified for Storage Groups, so you don't have to worry 
about changing the directory list associated with any of your Storage 
Groups.

(That said, I also think you should store the recordings outside of the 
/home directory structure, but if you really want it to be accessible 
only by the mythtv user and to treat it as if it were user data, rather 
than server/service data, you can do so.)

> #2 - Mount a different filesystem.  A new drive, or a partition on 
> another drive, format it (mkfs /dev/sdb1 or similar), move EVERYTHING 
> under /var/lib/mythtv to it and then mount it by putting something 
> like this in fstab:
> /dev/sdb1       /var/lib/mythtv          ext4        defaults    1  1
>
> (lots of options here, xfs filesystem, Logical Volumes, etc.  )

Or mount it elsewhere, like /var/lib/mythtv/extra and then specify a new 
directory in your Default Storage Group of 
/var/lib/mythtv/extra/recordings , and have multiple directories where 
your recordings can be stored.

Mike