[mythtv-users] Batch Download and Archive Recordings With Expanded File Names

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/24/2012 04:21 AM, tortise wrote:
> I've come to prefer downloading recordings onto HDD's instead of 
> adding more and more drives for stuff I want to keep.  I connect an 
> external HDD up over the eSATA link (faster than over the LAN to a 
> device and leaves the LAN free for playback etc) and download 
> recordings from mythweb onto the HDD.
>
> Its a bit of a pain though as it is done one by one this way, and the 
> file names often need distinguishing when form a series that are all 
> the same.
>
> Is there a way to
>
> 1) Batch file download some recordings and set them to autoexpire
>
> 2) Expand the downloaded default file names from Title.mpg.mpg to 
> Title+Subtitle+Airdate.mpg
>
> When an archive HDD is full I run:
> sudo ls -R > printall.2TB#4.txt
> to get a listing of what is on the HDD. I might dump those files into 
> a database ir similar for easy searching later on for the growing pile 
> of HDD's.
>
> Can anyone suggest how to automate this some more?  With many thanks.

Use mythlink.pl to create a directory of symlinks with the desired 
format, then copy those "links" to the drive (using cp or--my 
preference--rsync -av --progress) while dereferencing the links and 
you'll have a bunch of files with the desired names...  Then just go in 
and delete those recordings using mythweb or mythfrontend or ...

You could also do this with a user job--just requires writing a little 
script.

Mike