Hi,
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
There is no indication in log files that VDR had removed these recordings (although I'm not 100% whether there was log entry because logs data back only to 13th of May).
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
Br, Pasi
Yes, VDR remove recordings, depending on its priority and lifetime value. See MANUAL: a recording will last at least the number of days specified in "LIFETIME" before it is deleted because another recording with a higher priority needs the diskspace. Set LIFETIME to 99 and it will stay until you delete it manually.
Helge.
Pasi Juppo schrieb:
Hi,
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
There is no indication in log files that VDR had removed these recordings (although I'm not 100% whether there was log entry because logs data back only to 13th of May).
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
Br, Pasi
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Cannot verify that these deleted recordings were using 99 as lifetime but all remaining recordings do have it set as 99. And I don't recall changing this setting in autotimer ever (default in my case is 99).
Br, Pasi
Helge Lenz wrote:
Yes, VDR remove recordings, depending on its priority and lifetime value. See MANUAL: a recording will last at least the number of days specified in "LIFETIME" before it is deleted because another recording with a higher priority needs the diskspace. Set LIFETIME to 99 and it will stay until you delete it manually.
Helge.
Pasi Juppo schrieb:
Hi,
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
There is no indication in log files that VDR had removed these recordings (although I'm not 100% whether there was log entry because logs data back only to 13th of May).
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
Br, Pasi
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Oh, one more thing. If there were shorter lifetime than 99 then wouldn't there we at least some episodes from 2007 in the list? Now they are all gone..
Br, Pasi
Pasi Juppo wrote:
Cannot verify that these deleted recordings were using 99 as lifetime but all remaining recordings do have it set as 99. And I don't recall changing this setting in autotimer ever (default in my case is 99).
Br, Pasi
Helge Lenz wrote:
Yes, VDR remove recordings, depending on its priority and lifetime value. See MANUAL: a recording will last at least the number of days specified in "LIFETIME" before it is deleted because another recording with a higher priority needs the diskspace. Set LIFETIME to 99 and it will stay until you delete it manually.
Helge.
Pasi Juppo schrieb:
Hi,
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
There is no indication in log files that VDR had removed these recordings (although I'm not 100% whether there was log entry because logs data back only to 13th of May).
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
Br, Pasi
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
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On 06/04/07 19:12, Pasi Juppo wrote:
Oh, one more thing. If there were shorter lifetime than 99 then wouldn't there we at least some episodes from 2007 in the list? Now they are all gone..
Whenever VDR deletes a recording, it generates detailed log entries about that. It would really help if you had the logs to check whether VDR has actually deleted these recordings.
Klaus
Pasi Juppo wrote:
Cannot verify that these deleted recordings were using 99 as lifetime but all remaining recordings do have it set as 99. And I don't recall changing this setting in autotimer ever (default in my case is 99).
Br, Pasi
Helge Lenz wrote:
Yes, VDR remove recordings, depending on its priority and lifetime value. See MANUAL: a recording will last at least the number of days specified in "LIFETIME" before it is deleted because another recording with a higher priority needs the diskspace. Set LIFETIME to 99 and it will stay until you delete it manually.
Helge.
Pasi Juppo schrieb:
Hi,
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
There is no indication in log files that VDR had removed these recordings (although I'm not 100% whether there was log entry because logs data back only to 13th of May).
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
Br, Pasi
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 06/04/07 19:12, Pasi Juppo wrote:
Oh, one more thing. If there were shorter lifetime than 99 then wouldn't there we at least some episodes from 2007 in the list? Now they are all gone..
Whenever VDR deletes a recording, it generates detailed log entries about that. It would really help if you had the logs to check whether VDR has actually deleted these recordings.
As I wrote earlier logs end at 2007-05-13 and there are no log entries regarding these recordings except those which I have manually deleted (after I've made cutted version of some of them).
I'll try to keep closer look on other recordings if they vanish too and see if there are log entries.
Is it possible to configure VDR not to automatically delete recordings despite the disk gets full. Couldn't find the setting after quick browsing..
Br, Pasi
Pasi Juppo wrote:
For some reason VDR has decided to remove recordings. I've been suspecting this for some time but now I'm sure. I've been recording Tomi Traktori (a serie for kids) and there used to way more recordings that single page. Now only single page and all recordings in 2007 have been deleted.
What could be the reason for this and how to prevent this? There have been over 40h of free space on the disk so that is not the reason.
VDR only deletes recordings if disk space goes below 1G free space while recording. In that case it will delete recordings without %-mark that are older than lifetime in days (except 99, meaning never).
There are some patches that also delete certain recordings after a few days automatically, but you have to mark these recordings somehow. (lifetime 00 I think)
The only pitfall I know of: If the /video partition has another partition mounted into it, like /video/archive or /video/nfs-server, then VDR will not notice its free space. However, VDR will delete in these partitions if /video is running out of space, even if deleting in /video/archive wont give more free space in /video. You can loose quite a lot in short time by this.
Cheers,
Udo
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