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Just to finish the story,<BR> <BR>I couldn't leave things as they were. So, I stopped both backends, re-arranged the TV storage folders, making sure that both BEs had the same folder structure, either by symlinks or by mutual nfs mounts, updated settings in mythtv-setup for both BEs and restarted mythbackend for both.<BR> <BR>Strangely, it works. All the old recordings are there and mythnuv2mkv.sh can chew happily through them using both BEs.<BR> <BR>If it is any help to others, this is the folder structure that both see:<BR> <BR>MB:<BR> <BR>In mythtv-setup:<BR>TV: /myth/tv-mb<BR>TV Live: /myth/tvlive-mb<BR> <BR>SB:<BR>In mythtv-setup:<BR>TV: /myth/tv-sb<BR>TV Live: /myth/tvlive-sb<BR> <BR> <BR>Actual forder structure:<BR> <BR>MB:<BR>/myth/tv-mb --> symlink to the actual folder on a different disc that recordings are stored.<BR>/myth/tvlive-mb --> symlink to the actual folder on a different disc that live tv recordings are stored.<BR>/myth/tv-sb --> symlink to the respective subfolder of the actual nfs mount of the SB's /myth/tv-sb folder (rw)<BR>/myth/tvlive-sb --> symlink to the respective subfolder of the actual nfs mount of the SB's /myth/tvlive-sb folder (rw).<BR> <BR>I use symlinks to the nfs mounts so that I only have to mount a higher folder and pick the subfolder I want.<BR> <BR>SB:<BR>/myth/tv-sb --> symlink to the actual folder on a different disc that recordings are stored.<BR>/myth/tvlive-sb --> symlink to the actual folder on a different disc that live tv recordings are stored.<BR>/myth/tv-mb --> the actual nfs mount of the SB's /myth/tv-mb folder (rw)<BR>/myth/tvlive-sb --> the actual nfs mount of the SB's /myth/tvlive-mb folder (rw).<BR> <BR>Thanks for the info, Raymond.<BR> <BR>However, wouldn't it be great if some "clinically insane" programmer created some sort of wrapper for bash scripts that could use the mythtv-protocol to access recordings and such???<BR><br><br>Yianni.<br> <BR><div> </div> </div></body>
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