Mytharchive import fails if no storage groups are defined locally

[jtlarson@…]

I have 4 slave servers--each with local storage (all cross-mounted via NFS), but the storage directories are defined on the master backend default SG, since they are shared among all the servers.

When running the mytharchive import process on one of the slave boxes, it errors out like this: 2010-07-15 09:52:48.473 copying from /myth/windows/avpc2/tmp/Test recording/1000_20100707111400.mpg 2010-07-15 09:52:48.473 to /1000_20100707111400.mpg 2010-07-15 09:52:48.474 ERROR: Unable to open destination file 2010-07-15 09:52:48.474 Do you have write access to the directory?

Notice that the destination path is "/1000_20100707111400.mpg"--it should be "/mnt/sbe3/rec11000_20100707111400.mpg". I believe that mytharchive is simply looking for folders in the 'Default' SG that match the local hostanme--and if none are found the query returns nothing and the script chokes. See the following link for a little more detail: ​http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4844808&postcount=6

[robertm]

Please see the ticket howto, do not set priority/severity.

[stuartm]

Any chance that this has been fixed already? It's against 0.23

[paulh <mythtv@…>]

This was fixed in my fork in ​​https://github.com/paul-h/mythtv/commit/fcfe61b1bb

Note there seems to be a regression introduced by the socket changes that causes file transfers to abort early. I had to increase the timeout to 100ms in FileTransfer::WriteBlock?() to get the file transfer to work reliably.

[Paul Harrison <mythtv@…>]

In 003f3023f2483f88f84df73b41fe2f976bb119d0/mythtv:

MythArchive?: fix the import/export of recordings to the native archive format

• This updates the native import/export to work with the current DB table fields. Fixes #10871

• Add storage group support so the FE running MythArchive? no longer needs local access to the recordings. Fixes #8657.

[Paul Harrison <mythtv@…>]

In 854cb0c3b663d6aa37d9ea4484964bd1c899ec81/mythtv:

MythArchive?: fix the import/export of recordings to the native archive format

• This updates the native import/export to work with the current DB table fields. Fixes #10871

• Add storage group support so the FE running MythArchive? no longer needs local access to the recordings. Fixes #8657.

(cherry picked from commit 003f3023f2483f88f84df73b41fe2f976bb119d0)