[mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 04:05, David Watkins wrote:
> On 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> >
> > My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as
> > a 1TB file system which I use for recordings.  At this point I did not
> > bother with raid.  If a drive fails I lose the recordings.
> 
> Yes, and I've always assumed the whole group would be lost, or is
> there a way to recover files from the disks that haven't failed?

That is my assumption as well.  Been working fine since February.  Since
this is not a critical business system if a drive fails it fails.  I
spend some time rebuilding things and moving on.  If you are concerned
about a hard drive failures then you need to setup RAID on your system
or have a backup strategy that makes copies of your recordings
directory.  For a PVR I did not feel that was needed.

Have not done this yet but I do plan on backing up the database so it
can be restored.  (need to get that scripted and in place this weekend
:)  )