[mythtv-users] Auto-Expire

[Chris Pinkham]

Myth already logs when it deletes stuff, you just need to run mythbackend with
the -v command line option to enable verbose logging. :)

If it's low on disk space it will tell you and will list each program as it
expires.  When done it will tell you how much is free now or else print a
warning if it wasn't able to free enough disk space.

For the "keep only X episodes" auto-expire stuff, it will also print a message
as each program is expired telling you what show was expired.

> Is there any log kept when mythtv expires a program?  It would be useful
> to see when a program is deleted and the criteria on which it was
> removed printed in the mythbackend log.
> 
> Today three of my programs were deleted and should not have been.  I do
> have auto-expire set but none of the criteria (globally or for the
> individual programs) were met.
> 
> . The programs were recorded today (and deleted today).
>   I.e., I saw them there a few hours ago and even watched a few minutes
>   of one of them.
> 
> . I have 50G free and the threashold is 3G.
> 
> . 3 days of the programs are supposed to be kept.
> 
> Has anyone else had program go missing incorrectly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dick

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Chris