[mythtv-users] Auto-Expire

[rwk at americom.com]

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

Great!  I'll monitor it...  I will also assume since you didn't say
otherwise that you have not had or heard of this problem before.

Thanks,
Dick

> 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
> 
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