[mythtv-users] mythbackend 0.28 spins up external backup USB hard disk all the time

[Mark Perkins]

On 24 September 2017 6:52:09 am Thomas Börkel <thomas at boerkel.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just upgraded from MythTV 0.27.6 to 0.28.1 (Gentoo).
>
> There is one thing that really bothers me:
> Since the upgrade, my external USB backup drive is spinning up all the
> time.
> Normally, this should be down all the time (until my daily backup).
>
> This drive is not a storage drive for MythTV.
>
> I have udisks configured via udev to leave the drive alone and this is
> working fine since years.
>
> I can see in the syslog that this is happening after upgrading MythTV to
> 0.28.1.
>
> On that machine, only mythbackend is running, not mythfrontend, so it
> cannot by the Media Scanner, right?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
Is the drive / a folder on the drive in any of your storage groups? And / 
or is it in the backup storage group?