[mythtv-users] Deleted Recordings Not Being Removed
Bill Meek
keemllib at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 14:19:39 UTC 2021
On 4/19/21 10:09 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 4/18/2021 8:45 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 4/18/21 9:10 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>> On 3/20/21 1:04 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> Hoi Jay,
>>>>
>>>> Saturday, March 20, 2021, 8:24:41 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am using MythTV 0.28. I have long ago set up a Deleted Recordings
>>>>> Group and configured mythtv to remove recordings from there after 24
>>>>> hours. This gives me an easy 1 day undo option. This has worked fine
>>>>> for years.
>>>>> Looking at the backend status from mythweb, I see almost 600 GB of space
>>>>> used by deleted recordings. That seems like a lot to me, since they
>>>>> should be removed within 24 hours of me deleting the recording.
>>>>> Using the Recorded Programs from mythweb and selecting the Deleted group
>>>>> shows 222 programs in that group. This looks like something has gone
>>>>> wrong with mythtv removing deleted recordings.
>>>>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>>>> Jay
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> I doubt you set up this group, as it is a system group. Default
>>>> behavior is to keep deleted recordings until the space is needed, but
>>>> you can change it in the settings. Look there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tot mails,
>>>> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>
>>>> De lerende Mens
>>> Deleted recordings are just no longer being "deleted". I double checked Setup-> Video -> General -> Time to retain deleted recordings (days):
>>> It is set to 1 (1 day), yet deleted recordings never get deleted. My HD is nearly full and I have more than 1 TB of undeleted "deleted"
>>> recordings. How do I make these actually get deleted?
>>> Jay
>> Are there any entries in the output of this: mythbackend --printexpire --quiet
>>
>> If so, then see if Allow Recordings to Auto-expire is set in some/all recording
>> rules, especially templates.
>>
> The output of 'mythbackend --printexpire --quiet' produced a list with over 300 recordings.
> I believe that I have always never enabled Allow Recordings to Auto-expire, since I never want any recording to auto expire, only after I
> manually delete it (after watching it). I do not see what auto expire has to do with not deleting recordings that I selected *delete* for.
Agreed, at least when I delete a recording, it's gone.
The --printexpire output says that at least at some time, you were using
the feature. I have to disagree with:
*I believe that I have always never enabled Allow Recordings to Auto-expire*
You can look at the recording rule for one or more of the programs
that printed with --printexpire to see if if Auto-expire is set. Or,
you can do this to see all affected rules:
mysql --host=localhost --user=mythtv --password=FROMconfig.sys --execute "SELECT title FROM record WHERE autoexpire != 0;" mythconverg
Of course, the rule(s) that caused those recordings to use Auto-expire
may have been deleted long ago.
300+ recordings may/may not be enough to fill the 1TB drive ('cause I
don't know the quality/length of the recordings).
I'd try find-orphans.py too. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
--
Bill
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