[mythtv-users] Best way to copy to windows and delete after recording?
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Mar 16 07:03:49 UTC 2013
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:23:01 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah, I need to copy it off. I have my 3 tuners recording 24x7 and I'm
>archiving shows. Copying the shows off I can do automated (and am from the
>windows side) but I have to go through MythWeb and delete the shows after
>that. If I forget to delete them daily then MythTV starts flagging them as
>not watched when it autopurges and then starts recording duplicates which I
>don't want.
>
>So I either need to change the default behavior of MythTV so that when it
>autopurges it marks the show as never record again, or I need to figure out
>a way to automatically delete shows off the MythTV with a script every 24
>hours or so...
>
>Jason
One option you may not have considered is that the MythTV box is
capable of recording to network locations. You can make a new storage
group with a network mounted location in it, and then you can
designate the programs you want to record there instead of in the
"Default" storage group. You would have to be careful not to overload
the network connection - Gigabit ethernet is recommended and I would
think you would not want to record two programs at once to network
storage without testing carefully first.
And adding more hard drives to the MythTV box (if it is not maxed out
already) is another option. You can also add a USB 3.0 or eSATA PCIe
card and add external drives. I have two in a dual external USB 3.0
swap mount on my laptop and that works fine for recording, and I have
an eSATA drive on my main MythTV box as it has run out of internal
drive slots. I have also pulled power and SATA cables out of the back
of the box to run two SATA drives externally, but on internal power.
So the box now has 3 internal and 2 external recording drives on it,
plus the video storage drives.
With an external drive mount, you can swap hard drives, move files
onto them (at full hard disk speed), then move the drive (or the drive
and mount) to another PC for playback. Or just put the drives on the
shelf for archive storage.
The WD30EZRX 3 Tbyte green drives are pretty cheap, but entirely fast
enough for recording to.
Another useful trick is the find orphans script:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
That allows you to just move files off the MythTV box and then run the
script to fix up the database by deleting the entries for the missing
file. But I do not know if that would then allow the programs to
re-record or not.
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