[mythtv-users] mythbackend deletes recording extremely fast

[Karl Dietz]

On 27.04.2014 20:09, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote:

> some recordings my MythTV box deletes really fast after the recording
> time (slightly over 3 hours). Additionally this is a permanent delete
> without the possibility to recover from the auto expire screen in
> mythfrontend.
> There are other recordings scheduled for deletion with equal priority
> that are much older!
>
> Does mythbackend treat this recording as LiveTV type? It was no live tv,
> but a "power search" recording rule of weekly type.
> This does not happen arbitrarily for all types of recordings, it does
> happen only to specific recordings ... but I have no clue why?

I think this thread may contain some hints
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-December/343988.html

Basically the first guess is that you may have multiple file systems 
with unbalanced expire-able recordings.

Regards,
Karl

PS: Me, too!