[mythtv-users] Adding new 1 Terabyte Drive and Moving existing Recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/06/2009 02:46 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Boleslaw Ciesielski
> <bolek-mythtv at curl.com> wrote:
>   
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> I'd highly recommend using rsync for copying the files.
>> Agreed on rsync recommendation. In addition, if you have very large
>> files (like we all do :-)), it is useful to specify the --inplace switch
>> so the copy can be restarted easily if interrupted.
> Never used the --inplace but I do like to add the
> --remove-source-files to delete the source files that have been
> successfully sent.

I (an ext3 user) find that the best/fastest way to delete the original 
recordings after copying to a new drive is mke2fs.  :)

Since my recordings directories are the only thing on the filesystem, 
having the system delete the recordings as it copies is just a waste of 
time since I can easily just reformat when done.  And, if I have issues 
when copying, I always have the original to fall back on.

Mike