Hello,
VDR User wrote:
Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
Did the recording only diappear from the list VDR displays in its "Recordings" menu? Or was it actually removed from the hard disk?
I've actually experienced this as well. Recordings vanishing from the recordings list for no apparent reason. If I restart VDR, the list is fully recovered. My dedicated recordings harddrive is located in a lan fileserver, and I had always assumed it was something set wrong in Samba somewhere.
That is a really interesting new aspect, which guided me to some new tests.
I don't use samba, but nfs - and yes, it happens only when I mount a nfs- share. And yes again - the list is fine again after a reboot - cause the nfs- share will not be mounted automatically.
So I took a closer look at the nfs share to find the reason, cause I use nfs- shares for years and never experimented such failures before. I found out, that this behaviour might be related to directories, that don't contain recordings, but other files. Last time, a harddisk crashed, I had no space beside the server recording pool, so I put a backup there.
I tested then to mount the first subdirectory of the servers recording pool and things work fine again - no missing recordings. I guess it was my fault after all.
kind regards
Gero
P.S. My real recording root on the vdr machine is /var/lib/video.00 - but as I'm to lazy to enter that path, I created a link /video that points to /var/lib/video.00 - so when I manually check recordings, I use the path /video/xxx
P.P.S I found more configuration errors at skimming the logfiles. I think, I have to do a closer check of my installation.