[mythtvnz] Saving and restoring video files over a reinstall

[worik]

On 17/01/16 23:53, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:21:31 +1300, you wrote:
> 
>> Friends
>>
>> My MythTV installation is kaput.  It is a mess and I wish to reinstall

[snip]

> The normal way to fix problems with your video sources is to do a full
> delete of all sources and reconfigure them again.  That only affects
> those bits of the database, leaving your recordings intact. There is a
> special option somewhere in mythtv-setup to do a full delete - I
> believe it triggers some special code that was written specifically
> for problems like yours where everything is screwed up and you need to
> start again, and it puts you back to completely clean database for the
> sources and related things.  Personally, I would make sure I did a
> database backup before doing that.
> 
> If you add more drives and want to balance the free space on all the
> drives by moving recordings between them, you can just do that
> manually.  MythTV does not care where a recording is stored, it will
> find it as long as it is in a directory that has been added to a
> storage group.
> 
> As I have regularly added drives over time (7 recording drives now), I
> wrote myself a script that automates the process.  It works by moving
> random files between the directories in the Default storage group
> until all the drives are reasonably balanced.  It stops running
> automatically if there is a recording starting soon.  It is available
> from my web server:
> 
>   http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/balance_storage.sh

Thanks.  That was really helpful.

cheers
W

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