LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Alex Brekken wrote:

> Thanks Brandon, that makes sense.  For a masterbackend server that 
> will probably have at most 2 clients, I don't get the feeling that 
> striping the drives is necessary from a performance standpoint.  I'm 
> still trying to decide how to tackle the redundancy/backup issue.   
> I'm wondering if doing this via RAID is overkill....  Rather than 
> introduce that complication maybe I should just manually back the 
> drives up every so often. 

I go the manual route.  I export my DB to another filesystem regularly 
and DVD+/-R the things I have archived in Divx under MythVideo (3-4 
files per disk) and I don't really care much if I were to lose my 
recordings because it is just TV and the only thing I save long term is 
shows for the kids which can always be rerecorded. 

Implementing redundancy, raid levels, etc. in Linux seem more hastle 
than their worth when I can just back up what is important and live with 
losing the rest.

Kevin