[mythtv-users] myth.find_orphans.pl , why did I ? sob....

Paul thannet at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 22:04:24 UTC 2009


Well in a peek of annoyance I deleted what was left and decided that
they were best gone anyway. Now I notice that Myth still thinks
duplicate programs exist? Will take a look at that link tomorrow, hope I
can understand it.

Thanks ever so much for responding.

Paul.

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:54 +0200, belcampo wrote:
> Johnny wrote:
> >> Currently trying to recover the recording from the XFS filesystem, guess
> >> who also did not have a database backup ?
> > 
> > I recently lost some recordings when I read the rsync man page a
> > little too quickly. I was on xfs and after a lot of searching
> > determined that there was not any way to recover the recording from
> > xfs. The closest thing would be to find some sort of search of the raw
> > disk that could recognize mpeg2 (or whatever format your recordings
> > are in), but this wouldn't handle fragmented files even if it worked
> > and you would lose all filenames, etc. So on the far off chance that
> > you actually found some files they would likely be corrupt and
> > wouldn't have names that mythtv relies on.
> foremost is an option to do that, if there isn't new data written to the 
> partition, changes are you'll get it back. To 'avoid' future 
> fragmentation add allocsize=1024m in your mount statement in fstab, and 
> a regualar xfs_fsr, which will be very fast done, when above statement 
> is added.
> > 
> >> If I am completely nailed, then perhaps it was about time I had a
> >> cleanout, is there are doc anywhere on recreating the myth database, or
> >> is it simply a case of dropping it my PhpMyadmin ?
> > 
> > Why do you need to recreate the database? Do you still suspect
> > corruption? Or is this because all of your recordings were deleted?
> > Even if the orphaned script deleted the recordings and told the
> > database that they were deleted. There is still information in your
> > database about what has been recorded and about your recording rules,
> > etc. So I doubt you just want to start fresh. If you still want to go
> > ahead with that route, then you will want to check out:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore for the proper
> > way to do full or partial backups and restore jobs. Also note that you
> > will probably want to add mike dean's patch to the script
> > (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6013) to avoid any corruption. On
> > the up side you don't need to worry too much about corruption when you
> > have no data ;-).
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