For some reason Channels stopped recording anything recently. At first I thought the HD died, but it was fine when I plugged it into another machine. But, before that I tried doing an upgrade of the OS (Ubuntu) and the upgrade failed so I had to wipe the system drive and start over. However, since I couldn't boot the machine, I was unable to back up the database. I have everything working again but a) my old recordings aren't recognized, and b) I have to sort through the recordings folder and manually set up passes for all of my shows. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to rebuild the database based on my recordings folder. Thoughts?
There are automatic backups stored in the Database folder next to your recordings. Do you have that? If so you can go to http://x.x.x.x:8089/restore and select the most recent backup folder in there
Don't know why I didn't think to look there. For some reason I assumed the database would be saved on the system drive.
It looks like it's doing something, but when I clicked Enable DVR again there has been spinning arrows for nearly an hour. Should it be taking this long? There was around 900 recordings.
Thank you!
It should be instant. What does the Log tab say?
These are the last four lines:
2020/05/09 19:05:52.967616 [NAT] Successfully mapped port 8090 using natpmp
2020/05/09 19:20:48.160996 [DVR] Recording engine stopped.
2020/05/09 19:35:14.967520 http: TLS handshake error from 212.129.36.238:61778: tls: client offered only unsupported versions: [301]
2020/05/09 20:05:52.981730 [NAT] Successfully mapped port 8090 using natpmp
Hmm maybe try restarting the Linux service?
sudo systemctl restart channels-dvr
That worked. As soon as it restarted, I clicked the DVR checkbox and everything is how it was before this mess. Thanks much for your help.
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