Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-10 Thread Udo Richter
Andrew Herron wrote:
 If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a 
 way to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's 
 menu? 

You can symlink the partition into the first partition as directory. Not 
very clean, but should work for playback.

(but be aware that VDR's delete-old-recordings strategy expects that 
deleting a recording /video/symlink/recording results in free space in 
/video, and VDR may delete everything in /video/symlink/ quickly if this 
is not part of any recording folder.)

The alternative is to do all the linking of files manually, just as VDR 
would have done it.

Cheers,

Udo

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Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Herron

Udo - thanks for that. Much appreciated.

On 6/10/07, Udo Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Andrew Herron wrote:
 If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a
 way to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's
 menu?

You can symlink the partition into the first partition as directory. Not
very clean, but should work for playback.

(but be aware that VDR's delete-old-recordings strategy expects that
deleting a recording /video/symlink/recording results in free space in
/video, and VDR may delete everything in /video/symlink/ quickly if this
is not part of any recording folder.)

The alternative is to do all the linking of files manually, just as VDR
would have done it.

Cheers,

Udo

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Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread JJussi
On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09, Andrew Herron wrote:
 I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR
 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best
 to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs
 increase?

Magic words are evms or lvm.
Then you can add as many HDs you need afterward and just extend your video 
partition to cover whole new HD.  Just remember to select right file system 
(I use reiserfs) and you can do extend even on-line (as hot)

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Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron

I will look at evms  lvm. Thanks.

But I'd still like to understand how vdr's own managment of multiple
video.xx directories works...

Can anyone explain what my options are for using multiple video.xxdirectories?

On 6/9/07, JJussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09, Andrew Herron wrote:
 I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR
 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how
best
 to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs
 increase?

Magic words are evms or lvm.
Then you can add as many HDs you need afterward and just extend your video
partition to cover whole new HD.  Just remember to select right file
system
(I use reiserfs) and you can do extend even on-line (as hot)

--
JJussi

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Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron

On 6/9/07, Udo Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



The details about handling multiple video directories are explained in
VDR's INSTALL file.

Basically, if you specify -v /var/lib/video.00 on command line, VDR will
automatically search for .01 and so on, and will use them all for
recording.

Disk usage will be split across all disks, even recordings will be
split. VDR maintains a complete folder hierarchy in the .00 folder,
using symbolic links to mirror files on other disks to the .00 folder.

Cheers,

Udo



Hi Udo,

I had noticed the symlinks to other files in the .00 directory - thanks for
explaining the rationale behind that.

If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a way
to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's menu? I
have added a partition as .01 for example but only new recordings stored
there are visible inside vdr's recordings menu but none of the 'old'
recordings are. I guess what I should have done is add the 'old' recording's
partition as .00 and the new partitions as .01 etc etc. Other than changing
the order of the partitions symlinked to is there any way to correct this
problem now?

Many thanks.

Andrew
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