[mythtv-users] SMARTD reports a drive issue with a MythTV Storage drive
Ben Kamen
bkamen at benjammin.net
Thu Jan 17 20:51:15 UTC 2013
On 2013-01-17 2:45 PM, david.scott.day at gmail.com wrote:
> Assuming you have a spare SATA port in this machine, start with your 3rd
> step more or less.
>
> 1. Don't shut down myth just yet. The family may continue to use it.
Heh - no family. Just me. :D
> 2. Add the new drive and format/configure as needed.
> 3. Rsync files from the old drive to the new drive. This will take
> up to several hours or more, and since myth is still running, it may be a slightly imperfect copy. No matter, we will fix that soon enough.
> 4. Now, once rsync is done, wait until you have some time (I don't
> know, say a half hour or an hour between recordings and no one who wants
> to watch TV during that time.
> 5. Now do the rsync again. This time it will only have to sync the
> diffs between the now nearly identical drives and therefore you have
> minimized your down time.
> 6. Fix up /etc/fstab. Unmount the drives and remount the new in place of the old.
> 7. Restart myth.
Everyone has pretty much summed it up. Thanks!
-Ben
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