[mythtv-users] Storage group for holding recordings but not recording them

Peter Bennett cats22 at comcast.net
Tue Sep 20 18:09:12 UTC 2016


On 09/20/2016 01:43 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> Think I'm not seeing this clearly as I'm away from home dealing with a
> sick relative but need to do some housekeeping on my mythbox.
>
> I want to move a handful of recordings to an external USB drive I have
> attached to my system. I know I need to add the directory to my
> storage groups, but how do I make the directory available to Watch
> Recordings but not available to new recordings?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
Create a new storage group and give it any name. Add your USB drive to
that. It will look on that drive for recordings to play but will not
select it for new recordings unless you specify the storage group in the
recording rule, which you will not do.

Peter
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