Windows -> Linux migration question

[pciccone]

In the docs I do see mention of moving the Wiz.bin over from windows to linux to preserve media information. What I am not clear on is when moving the actually video data over how the wiz.bin will "remap" the existing shows? If I have 3 media directories on windows (D:\VIDEO,E:\VIDEO,F:\VIDEO) how should that be setup on Linux as so the migrated wiz.bin can read the video streams correctly?

I also assume I can just use smbclient (Samba) to access my windows data drives to copy the video streams? Nothing special to worry about?

Thanks!

Phil

[_Demo_]

That should be fine, you could copy those to /var/media/videos on the linux system.

_Demo_

[pciccone]

Originally Posted by _Demo_

you could copy those to /var/media/videos on the linux system

If I have several drives I would have several file systems on Linux. (like /var/media/videos, etc). How does the wiz.bin know which location to match to which video file? On windows the media path is hardcoded for each show, right? Like, D:\VIDEO\MyShow.mpg etc.

[nielm]

It will probably work the same was as moving media files does in Windows:

Sage will see the video files in a new location
It will recognise the filename format as being a sage recording
It will search in the DB for an airing matching the ID in the filename, and if it finds one, it will update the DB with the new location of the file...

[Opus4]

There is 1 catch on the Windows version, though: it has to be able to see the file's original location to know that it is no longer there before it would accept the recording in its new location. (At least, that's the way it was when I last tried it.) I'm not entirely sure how this would affect the Linux system.

What I did once was to move the file to its new location. SageTV couldn't see the original location, so it left the phantom location as the recording & imported the moved file. I then then 'deleted' the phantom recording, exited SageTV, and moved the recording to yet another recording dir. After restarting SageTV, the file was recognized as a recording & the imported version was dropped. You have to do this while the EPG data is not being updated because you don't want the show's file ID to be dropped from the database due to it not existing for a while.

Do you have to go through all those steps? I'm not sure... just offering a suggestion of something to try if simply moving the file doesn't work.

- Andy

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by pciccone

If I have several drives I would have several file systems on Linux. (like /var/media/videos, etc). How does the wiz.bin know which location to match to which video file? On windows the media path is hardcoded for each show, right? Like, D:\VIDEO\MyShow.mpg etc.

I was wondering this myself. I currently run 3 drives for video storage (non raid, just seperate drives), and wonder how hard it's going to be to move it all to linux. Only problem I'll have is where to put the 800gb of data while I convert the drives to linux . Guess that'll give me a reason to add a 500g monster-drive in there when I DO make the change .

[pciccone]

My thoughts on that problem was to move one drive at a time. That way you only have to make room somewhere for one drives worth of data at any given time. I have 3 250GB drives, I figured as part of the migration I would add just one more and also use it to start the migration off.

If you use Samba you can move data from Windows to linux on the fly.

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by pciccone

My thoughts on that problem was to move one drive at a time. That way you only have to make room somewhere for one drives worth of data at any given time. I have 3 250GB drives, I figured as part of the migration I would add just one more and also use it to start the migration off.

If you use Samba you can move data from Windows to linux on the fly.

If you use the NTFS kernel driver, you can do it directly on the system to a new drive. MUCH faster than doing it via SMB.

[pciccone]

Ya, true. Either way I guess. Figured leaving the old setup intact till I can prove it will work OK. Although they are external drives so its easy to move them around. I was just thinking of playing it safe....