Hi everyone!

I've been using Knoppmyth for about 5 months now and I'm very pleased. Unfortunately, the box that I have it on only has a 30 gig hard drive -- hardly enough for storing many shows. I've tried mounting a 100GB share on my NAS for recording TV but have run into problems. First, when I mount it as CIFS, the file uid/gid seems wrong and myth can't create recordings on the NAS. Mounting using smbfs (while specifying the uid/gid to use) work great however if the NAS/Network connection is too busy, the system crashes and I have to hard reboot.

If I could have shows recorded to disk locally and then transferred to the NAS afterward that would be great. However, I'd like to also retain links to the shows within Mythfrontend/Mythweb. Is there any easy way to do this that I may be missing? Does anyone have any other thoughts on this?

Oh, and thanks to everyone that worked on F1... it's the best release yet!

You can move the files and leave a symlink pointing to the new location in their place. I've used thsi trick in the past, and there's even a setting (mythv-setup -> General -> 3rd screen) to follow symlinks when removing things. The only missing piece is a little tiny script to do the move and the replacement with a link.

There are probably 2-3 other ways to do this if you really think about it.

What's a NAS?

I have a server I use for some storage (mp3s), and mount it via NFS. Do you have to use Windows networking?

Mike

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TJC - great idea! I am going to give that a go. Making the bash script should be easy. I never would have thought of that on my own. Thanks for your insight.

Mike - NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. It's basically just a kind of network server, usually controlled remotely and headless. We use them at work for remote backups. You know what, Wikipedia explains it better than me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

I have a 250GB NAS from simpletech. It's not the best but it does what I need, which is hd image backups for the most part.

Oh and to answer your question, NFS is supported by the NAS but it isn't documented at all in the user manual and I've found forums where users say it doesn't perform well (with the simpletech NAS) for some reason.