Losing recordings on a shared drive

[cryptAWD]

I mentioned this bug back in the beta period and nobody acknowledge or fixed it... When you are saving recordings to a shared drive (a feature Frey mentions several times as being supported) and that share disappears (server crashes, power goes out), all of the recordings are marked as missing and moved to the library. I find this completely unacceptable since there is no 100% uptime on any server.

Am I the only person who uses a shared drive on a central server? I can't imagine that I am! Looking for a recording in the Library sucks when you have over 500GB of shows. Why does SageTV insist on cleaning up these "missing recordings" without asking me about them first? Why can't SageTV wait a set amount of time to verify that the files really ARE missing (10 minutes is more than enough) before marking them as such? Is anyone from Frey Tech listening??

[Narflex]

I'm always listening. There's issues with adding a 'loose' rule like this in the current system. Its something that will be dealt with in a future release.

[cryptAWD]

Excellent, that's all I wanted to hear. As long as it's on the To Do List, I'm willing to wait (as long as it's a reasonable amount of time). I'll keep my fingers crossed that the server stays up until then...

Brian

[Narflex]

As long as you catch this before it does an EPG update (every 24 hours), then you should just be able to quit SageTV, put all the files back where they should be, delete Wiz.bin and rename Wiz.bak to Wiz.bin, startup SageTV and the system will look just like it did at the last EPG update....which is hopefully before the file server went down. You'll see the stuff since the last update go into the library, but not everything like you're experiencing now.

[cryptAWD]

I have done all of the above in the past and it never worked EXCEPT for the renaming win.bak to win.bin. That never occurred to me before, makes complete sense now. Too bad it's way past 24 hours since the last failure but I will try this next time. Thanks again.

Brian

[rrussell]

Jeff,

I have had this same problem, only it was with a firewire drive that wasn't visible to the system by the time Sage started up. Poof, all program info lost.

Would it be feasible to back up the program info to a separate file rather than deleting it when a recording goes missing? Then you could purge it from that file after... 10 mins.. a day.. a week.. whatever. And check the deleted items when a new/unknown recording file is found and restore the info from backup.

(Or something.)

[snipeman]

I had the same problem as a new user a few nights ago.

I wish this problem would have been fixed by now.

Sage moved EVERYTHING in it's data directory (even fragments) to the video libryary (all 200GB worth) and promptly told me it was out of space.

This happened because for some strage reason on a reboot, my WinXP machine didn't reattach to my media server via ethernet.

I lost all my EPG data, and since I was a new user to sage, didn't know to rename the .BAK file.

I can confirm this problem still exist in 1.41

Andy