"archive" to portable drive or DVD-R

[toomanyhandles]

Hello all;

What is the best way to move recordings (keeping their text descriptions if possible) from the active GBPVR system of drives but keeping them able to be integrated later (with their text descriptions)? Assuming that's possible.
98.13. Not using (or planning to use anytime soon) the Access format.


I'd like to move some recordings off of the main setup to save space, but would like to have them appear "normally" when I put the DVD in or hook up that external drive (along with their full description).

I know about mpegimport for pulling in just recordings, but the only way i've seen to use that loses the episode text.

Thanks for help!

[sub]

There is no built in mechanism for doing this.

You could try to roll your own using xml files and the import/export feature.

[toomanyhandles]

There is no built in mechanism for doing this.

You could try to roll your own using xml files and the import/export feature.

Thanks, just checking that I wasn't missing something obvious .

As a short-term and quick) fix, (before going away for a bit and with a kinda full HD

I think I could just back up the recordings.mdb, move the files to the removeable source, GBPVR will whack their entries when I delete the originals. When/if I wish to add them back in, I should be able to put the files back, and hand-add the relevant parts of the recordings.mdb?

EDIT: Or do the same with the export feature, you mean, I think.

thanks!

[kayak4ever]

I am not sure what the difference between video recordings and recordings is supposed to be, but when I moved some programs to a different drive to free up space, I found that I could just add the other drive to my video recording drive in the config file. I can still watch the shows I am "saving" by accessing them as videos rather than as recordings.

I hope this helps

[HtV]

When you can "keep" it as a recording you will keep the extra info about a show.

[genuckols]

I am not sure what the difference between video recordings and recordings is supposed to be, but when I moved some programs to a different drive to free up space, I found that I could just add the other drive to my video recording drive in the config file. I can still watch the shows I am "saving" by accessing them as videos rather than as recordings.

This is the way that I do it also. I have multiple hard drives that I use to store recordings until I find time to watch them. While they do show up as "videos" all of the text information is lost and I am only left with a list of names of videos.

I think what toomanyhandles was looking for was a way to save the text descriptions of the recordings when copying them over to the "video" drive. If anyone has a solution to this I would be glad to hear about it.

[Jeff]

The video archive utility will move files from one drive to another and keep the recordings info, either in the GBPVR database or in its own.

Jeff

[toomanyhandles]

This is the way that I do it also. I have multiple hard drives that I use to store recordings until I find time to watch them. While they do show up as "videos" all of the text information is lost and I am only left with a list of names of videos.

I think what toomanyhandles was looking for was a way to save the text descriptions of the recordings when copying them over to the "video" drive. If anyone has a solution to this I would be glad to hear about it.

That's going to be useful but what I would really like to do is archive a bunch of things to a DVD-R, then have the DVD drive added to the directories of volumes containing GBPVR recordings, so when I have a disc in, I'll have full text descriptions (just like it were a hard drive). I could maybe build this by hand for a given DVD (with the export/import feature Sub mentioned earlier) but I just haven't had time to play with the system much at all since posting.