Backup to HDD script

magicRob · Post by **magicRob** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:02

Hi I'm new around here

Picked up a DP-P1 the other week. Discovered the limitations of it specifically lacking the ability to overflow or record to an external HDD.

Using the WizFX source / Openwiz documentation / Help from forum members, I've put together something in PHP to grab the recordings and the delete them from the BW.

Just to give you some background as to why, I'm about to go away for a couple of weeks, and well I'd like to record the AFL games over the next few weeks plus some NFL games plus whatever else I can

I wanted a way of keeping the BW HDD as empty as possible so I didn't miss anything!

I have a Mac Mini connected to my TV as a semi HTPC, it also acts as my BTTV machine and I can surf the web or whatever from it. Even better is that OSX has a Unix based core... So thankfully I can schedule jobs to run whever i need them to etc etc

So basically I'm downloading the files to the Mac Mini using the web service and putting them into a directory that's also a SMB share visible to the BW

If anyone wants the script I'm happy to supply it warranty free... All it does is generate two shell scripts which are executed by another that's crontabbed. It's pretty lazy programming... actually very very lazy programming, just enough to get the job done quickly without over complicating it.

When I get back from my trip I may look into building a web interface so you can do stuff to your recordings remotely!

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:48

Well done. I was going to say that with a telnet mod to the Wiz, it is dead simple to move files around, but that requires modding and a way of enabling the file move (cron isn't running on the wiz by default).
Regards

peteru · Post by **peteru** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 14:23

Rob,

When you get back, you may wish to contribute your efforts to http://OpenWiz.org/

If you want, we can set you up with a separate Trac project and your work can become a basis for a community effort.

Vatoe · Post by **Vatoe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 17:32

magicRob wrote:Hi I'm new around here

If anyone wants the script I'm happy to supply it warranty free... All it does is generate two shell scripts which are executed by another that's crontabbed. It's pretty lazy programming... actually very very lazy programming, just enough to get the job done quickly without over complicating it.

When I get back from my trip I may look into building a web interface so you can do stuff to your recordings remotely!

hey Rob, I just experienced this myself where I had to dump some recordings to a NAS before I went on holidays. I did by using eric's wizmac program.

Can the script be easily modified to transfer the files to a NAS rather than a Mac? I not a expert by any imagination, hence the question/request. This would be a more useful proposition for me.

cheers,

John

magicRob · Post by **magicRob** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 17:42

You can get it to send the files anywhere you want

Basically it generates a shell script that had a bunch of wget's in it

for example...

wget -O /Users/xxxxxxxx/Desktop/ABC1_Sep.2.2008_20.33/0000 http://192.168.0.80:49152/idehdd%2Freco ... wiz%2F0000

that /Users/xxxxxxx/Desktop/ can be whatever you want, provided you can path to it...

Vatoe · Post by **Vatoe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 17:59

Ok sounds good, PM sent.

magicRob · Post by **magicRob** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 20:06

This is an old thread, but has something changed to the index.txt file? I just ran my script and it now gets 404's etc when trying to navigate to the various directories. Is the ":" character replaced with something other than a "_" ?

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Glass_ A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts Jan.26.2009_20.28|idehdd/Recordings/ABC1_Jan.26.2009_20.28+54857.73680.tvwiz/Glass_ A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Jan.1.2010_22.25|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Jan.1.2010_22.25+55197.80700.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Jan.8.2010_22.25|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Jan.8.2010_22.25+55204.80700.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Jan.15.2010_22.25|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Jan.15.2010_22.25+55211.80700.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Jan.22.2010_22.25|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Jan.22.2010_22.25+55218.80700.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Feb.2.2010_22.55|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Feb.2.2010_22.55+55229.82500.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
NFL_ America's Game Feb.5.2010_22.25|idehdd/Recordings/ONE_HD_Feb.5.2010_22.25+55232.80700.tvwiz/NFL_ America's Game.tvwizts
Italian Food Safari Mar.18.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Mar.18.2010_19.25+55273.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
Italian Food Safari Mar.25.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Mar.25.2010_19.25+55280.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
Italian Food Safari Apr.1.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
	idehdd/contents

So if I point my browser at:

http://<beyonwiz ip>:<beyonwiz port>/idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts

I get a 404.

Has something changed in the latest firmware?

The original document that I based stuff on is this: http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Recorded_Files

magicRob · Post by **magicRob** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 21:54

Looks like a minor directory structure change since I wrote this script quite a while ago

Problem solvered

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 22:31

And... did you wish to provide your solution for the benefit of others wondering?

prl · Post by **prl** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 22:50

magicRob wrote:This is an old thread, but has something changed to the index.txt file? I just ran my script and it now gets 404's etc when trying to navigate to the various directories. Is the ":" character replaced with something other than a "_" ?
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Italian Food Safari Mar.18.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Mar.18.2010_19.25+55273.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
Italian Food Safari Mar.25.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Mar.25.2010_19.25+55280.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
Italian Food Safari Apr.1.2010_19.25|idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts
	idehdd/contents
So if I point my browser at:

http://<beyonwiz ip>:<beyonwiz port>/idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts

I get a 404.

Has something changed in the latest firmware?

The original document that I based stuff on is this: http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Recorded_Files

It's been a long time since http://<beyonwiz ip>:<beyonwiz port>/idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/Italian Food Safari.tvwizts did anything useful.

What you want to fetch is http://<beyonwiz ip>:<beyonwiz port>/idehdd/Recordings/SBS_HD_Apr.1.2010_19.25+55287.69900.tvwiz/{header.tvwiz,stat,trunc,0000,0001,...}

There's very little in http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Recorded_Files about how to parse the index.txt file.

magicRob · Post by **magicRob** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 23:34

Actually it was the screenshot on that page that gave it away

The parsing of all the files is still the same.

I can't remember when I last used that script to rip data off my Beyonwiz

Must have been ages (at least sometime around September 2008!!)

All I know is it is slow

Why haven't they shoved gigabit ethernet in it already