[mythtv-users] HELP - connected slave and all recording expired

[Robin Gilks]

> AAAAAAAAAAAahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>
> Just when I thought I'd got the migration of things to a new machine
> finally sorted I seen to have lost most of my recordings.
>
> I kept the STB analog card in the old machine and made it into a slave. I
> started the slave backend whereupon a whole slew of expire messages
> scrolled up the master backend log screen I was doing a 'tail' of and
> everything not explicitly set with auto-expire off has gone.
>
> When I made the old machine into a slave, should I have removed the
> storage directory from it? There was no option to remove, only to create a
> default storage group.
>
> Is it just me finding this so difficult?

Just to add insult to injury the analog card in the 'new(old)' backend is
reported as being offline by the master backend - funny how it has been OK
for the last 3 years...

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Robin Gilks