[mythtv-users] importing recordings to restored database

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Oct 2 02:36:09 UTC 2011


On 10/01/2011 09:55 PM, Glen wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 09:47 +1000, Glen wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Yesterday the special "Enterprise" HDD that I bought for the OS on my
>> Server crapped out after only a few months.
>>
>> I have reinstalled the system on a new one but the most recent database
>> backup was from last Saturday. Consequently I now have almost a week of
>> recordings that the database doesn't know about.
>>
>> Is there a way to import these recordings into the database? I found a
>> reference to “myth.rebuilddatabase.pl” which would seem to help me but
>> after checking the mythtv wiki pages it would seem current versions no
>> longer support it.
>>
>> What is my best course of action?
>> Thank you for your time,
>> Glen
> I would be happy enough if someone could simply tell me "it cannot be
> done". If I knew that I'd just cut my losses and transfer the "orphaned"
> video files into mythvideo.

That's the supported approach.  Then, assuming those shows were for 
"series" type recording rules, you'll re-record the episode when it re-airs.

> If I am to go down this path I figured simply to sort the recorded data
> by date and cut the files created during the down time. Is there a
> better way to clean up video files not in the database??

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py will give you a nice list, 
which you can use to move them.

Mike


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