[mythtv-users] db restore

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 02:26:39 UTC 2018


On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 12 August 2018 11:19:40 am Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Stephen Worthington <
>>> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:50:54 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >On 09/08/18 14:23, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Stephen Worthington
>>>> >> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >>     The way I run my fstab is to use gparted to add labels to the
>>>> >>     recording partitions (rec1, rec2, ...), and then use fstab
>>>> entries
>>>> >>     like this:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>     LABEL=rec5 /mnt/rec5 jfs relatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail 0  2
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> So I wouldn't need UUID any more, I already created labels in
>>>> gparted?
>>>> >> this is my fstab:
>>>> >>   # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>>>> >> UUID=06336f2d-051d-4900-bb9f-ccb6f81d5bd5 /               ext4
>>>> >> errors=remount-ro 0       1
>>>> >> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>>>> >> UUID=47904312-a99f-46dd-ae81-5f0fff64df5e none            swap
>>>> sw
>>>> >>            0       0
>>>> >> UUID=3769e2e8-adde-456c-86e4-0402be737ef6 /media/daryl    ext4
>>>>
>>>> >> defaults    0       1
>>>> >> UUID=ec787761-11d5-4127-b198-e159bfcd2a6a /media/daryl    ext4
>>>>
>>>> >> defaults    0       1
>>>> >> UUID=3d591aa5-fb48-4fd1-8989-e01d66926876 /media/daryl    ext4
>>>>
>>>> >> defaults    0       1
>>>> >>   my labels are storage1, 2, &3 but only storage 1 mounts
>>>> >
>>>> >Isn't that because they all ahve the same mountpoint?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, they all need separate mount points - only one drive can mount on
>>>> the /media/daryl mount point.  The normal place to put fixed mount
>>>> points in Ubuntu is in /mnt.  The /media directory is used for
>>>> automounts.  If you plug in a USB disk or flash drive, or put a CD or
>>>> DVD in an optical drive, in Ubuntu it will normally automount itself
>>>> in a new directory made from the drive label under /media/daryl, and
>>>> also automatically appear in the disk software such as Nautilus as a
>>>> disk icon.  So doing fixed mount points on /media/daryl will stop that
>>>> automounting from working.  I would recommend doing this:
>>>>
>>>> sudo mkdir /mnt/storage1
>>>> sudo mkdir /mnt/storage2
>>>> sudo mkdir /mnt/storage3
>>>> chmod a=rwx /mnt/storage1
>>>> chmod a=rwx /mnt/storage2
>>>> chmod a=rwx /mnt/storage3
>>>>
>>>> and then changing those three lines in /etc/fstab to:
>>>>
>>>> LABEL=storage1 /mnt/storage1    ext4 defaults    0       2
>>>> LABEL=storage2 /mnt/storage2    ext4 defaults    0       2
>>>> LABEL=storage3 /mnt/storage3    ext4 defaults    0       2
>>>>
>>>> Note that I have also changed the 1 at the end of those lines to 2.
>>>> Only the disk mounted on / should have pass 1 setting in fstab.  All
>>>> other disks should be pass 2 (or 0 for special mount points like
>>>> /proc).  The pass number tells the boot process that all drives with
>>>> pass 1 are to be checked and made available in the early boot process.
>>>> But only the / drive needs to be made available that early - the other
>>>> drives should be left for the normal mounting process later.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Much obliged Stephen, all changes worked well.
>>>
>>
>> I replied too soon, I can't access previous recordings and new ones don'
>> play properly. fstab looks like this:
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>> UUID=06336f2d-051d-4900-bb9f-ccb6f81d5bd5 /               ext4
>> errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>> UUID=47904312-a99f-46dd-ae81-5f0fff64df5e none            swap    sw
>>           0       0
>> LABEL=storage1 /mnt/storage1    ext4        defaults    0       2
>> LABEL=storage2 /mnt/storage2    ext4        defaults    0       2
>> LABEL=storage3 /mnt/storage3    ext4        defaults    0       2
>>
>> the default storage directories in myth BE setup are /mnt/storage1,
>> /mnt/storage2, /mnt/satorage3/
>> recordings were green when I was using /media/daryl, red since. Any
>> suggestons?
>>
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>> Check permissions on /mnt and the three subfolders. Ie:
>
> ls -al /mnt
>
> Do you get any warnings when exiting mythtv- setup about storage group
> directories not writeable?
>

No warnings, figured it out though, the correct default storage directory
path  is /mnt/storage*/mythtv/recordings. The video playback was choppy
becausse the audio wasn't set . all good now, sorry for the noise.

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