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yan at seiner

Feb 16, 2009, 11:35 AM

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Moving recordings

I have a pile of recordings at /data/mythtv/recordings.

I've been simplifying my mount points and now the myth recordings are at
/data20/mythtv.

For now I've symlinked /data to /data20, but how do I tell myth its
recordings are at /data20 instead of /data?

Thanks,

--Yan
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drescherjm at gmail

Feb 16, 2009, 11:41 AM

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Re: Moving recordings [In reply to]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Yan Seiner <yan [at] seiner> wrote:
> I have a pile of recordings at /data/mythtv/recordings.
>
> I've been simplifying my mount points and now the myth recordings are at
> /data20/mythtv.
>
> For now I've symlinked /data to /data20, but how do I tell myth its
> recordings are at /data20 instead of /data?
>
1) stop myth backend
2) run mythtv-setup
3) add the new folder to your storage default group
4) exit (and allow it to remove the old folder)

John
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Nov 26, 2009, 12:31 AM

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Re: Moving recordings [In reply to]

On 11/25/2009 07:08 PM, Johnny wrote:
>> I'm in the process of moving a bunch of recordings (500+ GB) to a different
>> drive before I transfer the drive out of my backend. Both paths are already
>> set up as paths for recording in mythtv-setup. Do I have to stop the backend
>> before I do the transfer, or can I leave things running?
>>
> Are you moving or copying. You wouldn't want to move a recording in
> progress. Also I would recommend using rsync. That way you can stop or
> restart without losing your progress in case something happened.
> Moving 500 GB can take a while. Also you can keep recording and run
> rsync one more time just before you switch to catch any of the latest
> recordings/changes.

and can use --progress to get the progress on both the current file and
the total files to be copied.

Mike
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