[vdr] Re: VDR, LAN, HDDs & automessages

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:29:36 +0200, Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:

>My actual VDR Box will be using two HDDs. One 40 gig
>which contains Linux, VDR & Plugins and has a video
>directory. Primary recording is done on this disk. A 2nd
>60 Gig HDD will also be running. I would like to do the
>following:
>
>When the 40 gig HDD is almost full, VDR should (automatically)
>move all the (only the pre cut if possible) recordings to the 60
>Gig hdd. Only if the 60gig Hdd is full, should VDR start to delete
>some (if possible only uncut) older recordings (this should never
>happen as I also want to implement:).
>
>Secondly when the 60 gig starts getting full (say 60%) is it possible
>for VDR to send me a message (automatically) to my LAN
>connected Windows machine? This should be sent once per VDR
>start as long as the 60 gig hdd holds more than say 50% of it`s
>capable data.
>
>Is the possible ? How ;o))
Only mount the first hdd's video directory for vdr. build a bash script
(called by cron) that does the copy ops. Use a cronjob to calc the free
disk space (df) of the 60gig hdd. Send an email or use smbclient to
send a message to you.

>To reduce noise levels, I would like to shut down the 60 gig as
>long as there is no data being transferred. Is there a program
>running on Linux which allows the user to control the spin up
>and down of a hdd?

use hdparm -S. Read man hdparm before for timeout values.



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