[mythtv-users] Unstable Backend - Full Media Drives but Plenty to Autoexpire

[John Drescher]

> My mythbuntu 10.04 64 bit backend with a ~100G OS HDD and 2 media 2TB drives
> I've noticed to start missing recordings, duplicate recordings and have a
> few crashes.  I've installed apport and managed to submit one so far, that
> seemed to be to do with time issues.  I upgraded from 23.0 to 32.1 thinking
> that might help.
>
> I realise now what is also different is the media drives are now full, but
> they have 500G of Space Available After Auto-expire.  I am wondering if the
> problems arise from my expecting mythtv to just do the deletions without
> issue.  Anyone else experienced similar, or can someone confirm that we need
> to do the auto deletions ourselves?
>

No you do not need to do auto deletions yourself. At least I have
never had to. However with that being said I have not filled my mythtv
storage groups in a long time being that 2TB drives are really cheap
now (some time last week 2TB Samsungs were $65 shipped at newegg)..

John