Possible to change "Delete" behaviour & Move the file a temp location instead?

[Fastrack]

Hi,

I'd like to intercept/change the delete behaviour of SageTV. Is this possible to do with a Customization. Or would I be better to install something like Undelete 2009?

I just setup FlexRaid
Forum: http://forum.flexraid.com/

It's "Snapshot" Raid6. I have 5 Data Drives (Normal NTFS drives) and 2 drives for Parity. Any 2 drives in the array can fail. The "Snapshot" is taken each night at 12:15am. It takes around 45 minutes to build the parity.

By the nature of the beast ANY file deleted can affect the recover of files on other drives - as each file is used to rebuild others.

I know the responses will be "well don't delete a show", but that becomes a pain to clean up. So I'd like to move them out - and I'll purge them via a script on a nightly basis.

[will]

I have never used FlexRaid but have you ever considered going to a more traditional RAID setup? I'm currently running RAID 5s (soon to be migrated live to a RAID 10 and 6) with a traditional hardware-based card. The stripping is done at the block level in real time.

Not knowing much about FlexRaid it seems risky that a file deletion on a RAID array can cause you to lose data with a hard drive failure.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by Fastrack

By the nature of the beast ANY file deleted can affect the recover of files on other drives - as each file is used to rebuild others.

That seems silly... There are plenty of temp files that gets deleted all the time, which would make it useless if it actually worked like that...

[Fastrack]

Originally Posted by will

I have never used FlexRaid but have you ever considered going to a more traditional RAID setup? I'm currently running RAID 5s (soon to be migrated live to a RAID 10 and 6) with a traditional hardware-based card. The stripping is done at the block level in real time.

Not knowing much about FlexRaid it seems risky that a file deletion on a RAID array can cause you to lose data with a hard drive failure.

Yes I have I spent a ton of cash on a 3ware 9500s-12 about 4 years ago when I first got SageTV. And unless I spend the $$$ on enterprise drives, the standard desktop drives do not cut it they time out making the array degraded. It's just not worth the frustration. So I came across this, there's also SnapRaid (open source) or Unraid (linux) which all work about the same.

Originally Posted by Fonceur

That seems silly... There are plenty of temp files that gets deleted all the time, which would make it useless if it actually worked like that...

Part of FlexRaid is "Storage Pooling", which protects against deletes etc.. But I did not want to go with it because of the overhead (as I have an older CPU etc...)

All the drives are standard format so if something happens to 3 drives ALL the data is still there. The tech is very good. But has a few drawbacks in the configuration I'm using it in.

I do not have C: or the SageTV directory monitored so most of the files are static on these drives, except for deleted Shows. There is an UNDO feature which I have enabled, so if there are 24GB of changes it writes out 24GB of undo information. SO if the parity build process fails it will back it all out.

I thought about Intel Matrix Storage (which is Software Raid) with 2 RAID 5 arrays' but if 2 drives were to fail all data on that array would be lost. Raid 6 Hardware is a good path, but of course then if you have a failure your left buying another controller card of the same brand. With this system you can put the drives in ANY Pc.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Fastrack

I'd like to intercept/change the delete behaviour of SageTV. Is this possible to do with a Customization. Or would I be better to install something like Undelete 2009?

It's mostly possible, but tedious and not fool proof. Sage fires off an event after a MediaFile is deleted so the plugin would have to modify the UI to intercept all of the places where a show is deleted and then move it instead of deleting it. This would not take care of the situation where Sage automatically deletes a show to make room for the next recording.

[Fastrack]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

It's mostly possible, but tedious and not fool proof. Sage fires off an event after a MediaFile is deleted so the plugin would have to modify the UI to intercept all of the places where a show is deleted and then move it instead of deleting it. This would not take care of the situation where Sage automatically deletes a show to make room for the next recording.

Thanks that's the response I was looking for. I guess I'll look at Undelete 2009 I've tested it on a another machine and it's quite good. I have not tested it with large media files though.