[mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

[Asher Schaffer]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0800, Bear Paw <patadeloso at san.rr.com> wrote:
>  
> Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its
> progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup. 
>   
> System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transfers them to
> fileserver 
> System two: File server, this will hold the MythTV backend and dish out
> files to all the frontends. 
> System 3-N: MythTV frontends 
>   
> What we really want is for SysOne to cache the files to its harddrives then
> transfer them to SysTwo. 
>   
> Is this doable or should we just try to put it all on one system? 
>   
> Thanks 
>   
> Bear Paw 

I'm not quite clear what the goal is, just to use 1 machine as the
backend and have it write to a file server?  You can do that by using
NFS, why do you want to cache it first?  I'm not sure if it is
possible to do the cacheing, but it might be possible using rsync or
something similiar.