Feature for moving archives (yes, I know of the sticky post about this... :-P)

[stuckj]

I've been running a SageTV server in service mode in my home network with the HD media extender for some time and recently added a 1 TB RAIDed storage array to my network to store media that I don't want to lose. The Sage server just uses 250GB SATA drive for regular recordings that I don't care about as much.

Now, I'm familiar with Opus4's sticky post about moving recordings to an import media directory here (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30697).

But, I'm wondering if there's any plans for a feature addition in the future for Sage that would make this a little more user friendly. If you have to move many recordings (about 50GB now since I've been putting it off for a while) it takes quite a while to copy and since you have to leave Sage off during the move there's a good chance of missing recordings. Plus, it's nice to be able to do this kind've maintenance through the TV interface (for those of us who like to just leave the media center in the basement and forget about it. ).

Just a thought.

Thanks for the great software anyway and keep up the good work. I'll keep buying it if it keeps working well.

-Johnny

[Djc208]

I'm not sure it would help you much. It sounds like you don't want to treat this NAS as a recording drive, just for archival. So the standard transfer method won't help unless you set it up as a recording drive and limit the allowable space so Sage doesn't record to it.

An option to have Sage copy "archived" recordings to a seperate location might help though. Kind of like being able to compress the file to a different location.

Otherwise for your initial transfer you could always copy the files to the NAS before adding the drive to Sage. Then shut down Sage, delete the original files, and then follow the sequence in the sticky to re-add them.

[nyplayer]

I created 2 Profiles that I use to move recordings using the built in Transcoding in sage. I just created the profile with copy instead of transcoding. I just use it like I was converting a file set my destination etc... works great. I use it along with John's autocompress STVI

You can create more for mp4 etc...

transcoder/formats/Copy-MPG\ Move\ Play=f\=dvd;MCompressionDetails\=-target dvd;[bf\=vid;f\=copy;][bf\=aud;f\=copy;]

transcoder/formats/Copy-avi\ Move\ Play=f\=avi;[bf\=vid;f\=copy;][bf\=aud;f\=copy;]

[stuckj]

Thanks nyplayer. That's exactly the type of thing I was looking for. I'll try setting that up on mine tonight and give it a try.

If that works, I'll forward the thread on to Andy and maybe he can add that as an option in the sticky thread (unless I missed it in there...).

And, Djc208, the "archive to separate location" is basically what I was talking about. I think they actually chose a poor name for archive..."protect" or something like that seems to make more sense. I think of archiving as actually storing something off somewhere for long term storage...eh, semantics. :-P

-Johnny

[stuckj]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I created 2 Profiles that I use to move recordings using the built in Transcoding in sage. I just created the profile with copy instead of transcoding. I just use it like I was converting a file set my destination etc... works great. I use it along with John's autocompress STVI

You can create more for mp4 etc...

transcoder/formats/Copy-MPG\ Move\ Play=f\=dvd;MCompressionDetails\=-target dvd;[bf\=vid;f\=copy;][bf\=aud;f\=copy;]

transcoder/formats/Copy-avi\ Move\ Play=f\=avi;[bf\=vid;f\=copy;][bf\=aud;f\=copy;]

That seemed to do the trick. I did get a strange artifact where "Copy-MPEG" and "Copy-avi" appeared in my transcode options in addition to just "Copy" with the "MPEG Move Play" and "avi Move Play" quality options. Weird.

I noticed the file size of the recordings aren't exactly the same, but I'm guessing that's just due to extra metadata changes outside the audio/video codec (???). It took me a while to figure out the syntax of the format string (and I still don't quite understand it). Is it documented anywhere? Or, is this just serialized java objects? Looks kinda like the raw data from java preferences as they're normally stored in the registry.

I also hadn't realized that SageTVTranscoder.exe was just ffmpeg with a different exe name. :-P