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

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/05/15 07:13, Robin Gilks wrote:
> 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?
>
Deleting a storage group entry is non-intuitive: highlight the entry and press 'D'.

If you want us to explain just what happened we're going to need more detail 
about how you set your new arrangement up. Which fields in which mythtv-setup 
screens on which hosts did you change?

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Mike Perkins