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I have limited hard drive space in my TV server and would like to be able to set up a script to move recordings from my TV server to my unRAID server at a particular time of day. I would want to be able to watch these shows in the Live TV tab of XBMC and then be able to delete the show when done watching. I'd record directly to the unRAID server but I am afraid that the network and/or the unRAID will not have the bandwidth to handle the 4 shows that I am capable of recording at once.
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You can add a network share as a recorded tv folder then any recordings in it will show up
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WMC will only record to a local drive. Personally I use robocopy set up in a BAT that runs on a schedule (task scheduler set to run the bat at 11pm every night). Robocopy is handy because it is free with Windows and it deletes the original files only when the transfer is successful.
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2013-12-03, 18:34
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-03, 18:35 by sgibbers17.)
What about WMC backend sever being able to handle multiple directories with tv recordings
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WMC - whether located on a server or client - can only record to one location on a local drive. Recorded content (.wtv) can be shared remotely with clients either via ServerWMC within XBMC, with WMC on a client (using smb shares) or even just adding that network location as a media source in XBMC as it supports wtv.
ServerWMC is simply a conduit from a remote installation of WMC to XBMC. You are still limited by WMC for actual recording locations.
The really nice thing about using ServerWMC is that you can have WMC installed only on your server - which also (should) house your network drives. When you set the recording location in WMC to a local drive on the server this local drive can then be shared via smb to any client on your network.
For example - on my server WMC recording is pointed to G:\Recorded TV. This G drive is shared on the network via SMB. So it shows up on all my clients as \\Server\TV Shows\Recorded TV (where smb share name is TV Shows for this drive).
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I don't think I'm explaning my self well enough.
I still want to record localy then move the recordings to a network location at a later time. I want both the recordings on the local drive and the remote location to show up in the XBMC Live TV recordings at the same time
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ServerWMC allows only a single recording location to be used. If you use WMC this can be done but not via this add-on atm.
What you could do as a work around is add a media source within XBMC to point to both the network and the local drives and use this as your default 'Recorded TV' location.
Otherwise you might want to add this to the feature request list.
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Oh and credentials again..... make sure both/all network paths use the same user/pass
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