[mythtv-users] Storage Groups

[Steven Adeff]

On 7/11/07, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> I've seen discussion about Storage Groups lately and wanted to see how
> applicable they would be to an idea I have.
>
> Let's say I have two MythTV combo frontend/backends (each with a tuner
> in them) in my house as well as a frontend or two.  Can I create a
> storage group on each backend so that when I scheduled a recording, I
> could specify which backend(s) the recording was stored on?

yes.


> Probably in most cases the same back end would record and store and in
> fact that should be the default situation, conflicts aside.  But there
> are cases where I would want one backend to record and the other store,
> or one backend to record and store both locally and store a copy on the
> other backend.

I don't think you can have both store a copy without something like
rsync'ing that recording.


> Assuming yes to all or most of the above, could these two backends also
> be masters to their own local frontends and other standalone frontends?

Yes, but they would be two different mythtv setups that don't talk.

-- 
Steve
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