[mythtv-users] storage groups with a slave backend
Geoff Mishkin
gmishkin at acs.bu.edu
Fri Apr 20 20:04:16 UTC 2007
He said it was also a slave backend, so recordings that are made on the
slave would have to be stored on the master. To do this I think you do
need NFS mounted central storage, with the Master Backend Override
option on. According to the wiki:
If enabled, the master backend will stream and delete files if it finds
them in the video directory. Useful if you are using a central storage
location, like a NFS share, and your slave backend isn’t running.
But I think you're right that for using the machine as just a frontend,
not a slave backend, you don't need the video directory mounted. The
master backend will stream shows even if they were recorded on another
backend.
--Geoff Mishkin <gmishkin at bu.edu>
Bill Omer wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Matt <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quick question for you...
>>
>> - I have a master backend that has two local drives mounted, each
>> drive is a storage group
>> - I'm adding a slave backend/frontend that has a tuner, but I do not
>> want to use any local diskspace. I want it to use the same disks and
>> storage groups on the master backend.
>>
>> 1) Do I need to do anything on the slave backend in order to configure
>> it to point to these groups? Do I need to configure the storage
>> groups in mythtv-setup on the slave? Do I need to mount the drives
>> via NFS? Anything else?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Matt
>>
>
>
> You shouldn't have to do anything. Just setup the slave backend like
> normal and you should be fine. You dont have to have the files
> mounted over nfs just for playback. I could be wrong, but i believe
> that on a slave backend you will need to have the shows mounted via
> nfs if you want to comm flag or transcode them.
>
> -Bill
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