Program to copy recorded TV to server

wonder_lander · 7 Dec 2010 at 17:56

I'm looking for a recommendation for an app to run on my windows 7 media centre.

I want it to monitor the recorded TV folder and when it spots that the files isn't being written anymore it moves it onto my WHS.

Anyone doing anything similar?

Skeeter · 7 Dec 2010 at 20:15

Moves it or copies it?

If its moving it can you not just change your recorded TV directory to the server directory?

wonder_lander · 7 Dec 2010 at 20:32

Sometimes the network connection seems to drop so I thought it best to record locally and then move the files out when complete.

SiriusB · 7 Dec 2010 at 21:27

If you use Robocopy's move switch, it will fail if the file is still open/locked/being written to. So you could have a simple batch script like:

move-recorded-shows.bat

Code:

robocopy C:\source \\server\destination /MOVE /S /R:1 /W:10

/MOVE will delete the files and directories at the source after they have been copied to the destination
/S tells robocopy to copy all subdirectories it may come across
/R:1 on any file it can't copy it will retry once
/W:10 waits 10 seconds before retrying

You could set up a Scheduled Task to fire the batch script at regular intervals, say once an hour. You can adjust the numbers for the /R and /W switches if you would like robocopy to try several times before giving up.