[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

[James Crow]

Today I switched from DSL to cable internet. The installer asked me to 
move my computer (MBE) so that he could install a jack behind it. I shut 
everything down and moved the system. When I powered things back up I 
got the horrible click of death from one of my drives. It turns out that 
the drive that had failed is my OS disk. All my recordings sit on 
dedicated spindles. I also had a cron job that backed up my database 
every night and saved it to a directory under /home. Problem is that 
/home was on the same spindle as my /. In hindsight that was obviously 
not the correct place to store the mysql backup, but I don't think I 
realized it when I set things up.

So now I have lost my mythconverg DB as well as its backups. All my 
recordings are intact. Is there any way to rebuild the portion of the 
database that shows the recorded files with just the recordings? I have 
an older db backup from ~ 6 months ago on an older machine so that will 
contain some of the older recorded and then deleted programs. I have 
1.9TB of recordings and would hate to just end up with files I can view 
through mythvideo instead of through the recordings interface.

If anyone has any ideas on possible ways to salvage a drive with the 
click of death I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks,
James