[mythtvnz] SOLVED - Merge storage groups.

[criggie]

On 05/11/13 07:18, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:48 PM, criggie <criggie at criggie.org.nz 
> <mailto:criggie at criggie.org.nz>> wrote:
>
>     So I had two hard drives in my mythbox backend used for storage
>     groups.
>     The 500GB was fine, the 1TB was starting to show many smart
>     errors, kernel errors in dmesg, and frontends would wedge trying
>     to access some recordings.
>
>     So I bought a 2TB and fitted it, moved all the dodgy drive
>     recordings I could, and all is well, I had 2.5TB of space...
>     which was a bit of a waste, so I wanted to move all recordings
>     from the 500GB over to the new drive, and retask the 500 for
>     backuppc storage.
>
>     This was dead-simple, just a matter of waiting for the backend to
>     not be recording anything to that storage group, then move all the
>     files across.
>     Seriously, I thought there would be a lot of database updates
>     required, but that was all it took.
>
>     Then in the mythtv-setup command I had to remove /myth3 and leave
>     /myth1   (names are historic from when I had 3x 30GB drives for
>     storage)
>     and update nfs exports and sundry housekeeping.
>
>
> Why are you nfs exporting? Myth doesn't need it.
>
Just because I can - I already use NFS to get the videos directory 
mounted on frontends.   You're right, its not necessary for myth.


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Criggie

http://criggie.org.nz/

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