Migrating from recording directory in user's home directory to NAS share

[rkulagow]

Right now I'm still in the experiment phase of NextPVR.

With MythTV, multiple mount points / paths can be configured as recording directories, and then MythTV can be configured to either spread the load, most space available, etc. When it comes time to playback a recording, the MythTV database stores the name of the recording, but not necessarily the complete mount path, so if I choose to manually move a recording in the CLI from one recording directory to another, then mythtvbackend can still find it. (Because most users will have a reasonable number of mount points, it takes a fraction of a second to check each directory for the file that we're looking for)

If I create a share on my NAS, and configure the recording and LiveTV buffer directories to point at that share, then will I be able to move the existing recordings that are in the recordings subdirectory to the new mount point? Or is the NextPVR database storing the full path to the recording, so if I manually move it with "mv", that's going to break things?

[mvallevand]

In will disagree with you about searching directory time since it can take quite a long time to spin up a green drive or load a network share. Sub had to specifically add an option to not look up directories because of this.

I think what you are looking for is the Archive feature that is not available in the web yet, but is available in the NextPVR GUI in nlite or knewc+kodi. It does the move for you as a background task. You can queue up multiple moves too.

Martin

[rkulagow]

Fair enough as far as the search of the recording directories; I can see if drives have been spun down that it might take a while.

But because there's an Archive feature, it sounds like recordings can't just be moved around from the command line.

[sub]

Correct, it stores the complete path to a recording in the database, so you can't just move them.

It does have a concept of multiple recording paths, though the UI for configuring this isn't in v5 yet, so you need configure extra paths in config file. With multiple paths configured, you get the option where to record to while scheduling recordings. You can also configure it to spread recordings among the different directories.

There is an archive feature which moves the files between directories and updates the database.

There is also NScriptHelper which users can use in scripts to do things like update the database when the move files etc.