Problems with copied video files to new server

[gprichardson1]

Hi all,

I just built a new Sage system. The old system, hostname=sagetv, had a couple of PVR-150's in it. The new one, hostname=sagemc, has a couple of HVR-1800's.

I just copied over all my videos from the old system to the new system. I shut down Sage on the new one, copied over wiz.bin from old to new, updated sage.properties file to:

advanced_video_file_recovery=true

Started up Sage. It said it was doing some sort of updates. Everything seemed to be going peachy. I saw all my videos, watched a couple of them. Great!

I shut down sage, re-edit sage.properties to set true to false, restarted the service, started up Sage. Things still looked good. I figure "Great!".

I shut down the old system (called "sagetv"). As soon as I did that, bad things started happening on the new system. I started getting long delays, with the circle spinning a lot. I looked at the details on some videos and some still point to the old server:

\\sagetv\....

when they should now have the path of \\sagemc (sagemc is the new server name). I figured that going through the steps in the FAQ for copying video files would update all this but it appears it didn't do so for all the video files.

I certainly don't want to keep the old server online but if I don't the new server's install of Sage crawls because it apparently is trying to access the old server.

Any ideas what I can do? BTW, I'm running the latest Sage - 6.4.8 on WinXP Pro SP3.

Thanks for any help/advice.

-Gary

[matt91]

It appears that you went through the FAQ before doing this, right? Either way, double check it to ensure that you did everything right.

(From memory) I think that you have to have the "old" directories visible in Sage, with no videos in them...and then have the videos in the new directories. Once Sage sees a new location where the videos ARE, and an old location where the videos AREN'T, it should update your wiz.bin....and you'll be in business.

Is that what you did? If not, try it.
Matt

edit: So your new server should have something like this for recording directories:
\\sagetv\rec_dir_one (empty)
\\sagemc\new_rec_dir (full of videos)

you needn't, of course, actually delete the old videos, just remap the drive to an empty one.

[gprichardson1]

Hi,

Yeah, I followed the FAQ posted by Andy on this page

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...610#post265610

I specifically followed the section for "advanced_video_file_recovery method, for SageTV version 6.3.9 and later" which doesn't mention what you suggested. Thus, I didn't do that!

So I went back and moved all the videos on the original system to a different folder, but still had my shares available. I then re-did the steps I indicated on the new server and, sure enough, that did the trick! I currently have the old system off my network and the new system is working fine and all the videos point to the new system's shares.

Excellent! Many thanks for your help. I appreciate it!

-Gary

[matt91]

Sure, glad to help. This is the tried-and-true method, and it's worked for me before too. I've never tried the advanced_video_file_recovery method, so I can't say anything about it.

Glad it worked.
Matt