Backup unwatched recordings

[mgkicer]

I searched for the following but could not find a usable solution:

I want to backup unwatched recordings to another hard drive. Right now I only have one 750GB SATAII hard drive. In the future, I want to have a 1TB RAID1 for DVDs, photos, OS image, etc, the 750GB for TV recordings and a 500GB for the OS and unwatched TV shows.

Is there a way for SageTV to automatically duplicate an unwatched show on another hard drive? Then once the show is watched, delete the second copy leaving the original untouched. I don't what to set up a RAID on the 750 for TV and OS because it is painfully slow navigating the UI while recording 3 HD streams. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Max

[pjpjpjpj]

You probably ought to ask this question over in the "Customizations" forum. I don't think there's anything in the default Sage software to do something like this.

[mgkicer]

Thanks. I didn't think SageTV would have something like this. I just needed to make sure, before I start working on a workaround. I'll re-post this on Customizations.

[mikejaner]

You might want to look into FlexRaid.
http://www.openegg.org/FlexRAID.curi

If you want to get less complicated you can just schedule recordings to be copied automatically by something like Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 Beta

[mgkicer]

Thank you for the suggestions mikejaner. I'll give FlexRAID a try.

[wbarber69]

You can use sagemc and automatic compression settings. You can set up a directory specifically for compression conversions as long as they are not in-place conversions then you can go back to those shows in the recordings listings and delete the original