[mythtv-users] MythTV Secondary FE/BE Setup Advice

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Allen Edwards wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:31 AM, James Crow <james at ultratans.com>  
> wrote:
> After having Myth running for the better part of two years on one TV I
> have purchased a second Myth box for the other TV in the house. I am
> debating making it a secondary BE/FE or just using it as a FE. My
> current BE/FE machine can only hold two drives (2x 500GB SATA). One
> drive is for recordings and one drive is OS and other media files (DVD
> rips, flac audio, etc).
>
> The new system came with a 500GB SATA drive. Plenty of room for OS
> install, but how do I best utilize the space? I don't watch much TV  
> so I
> don't need it for TV recording space. I would like to use the space  
> for
> storing DVD rips and flac audio. So far I have not found the right
> documentation to tell me how/if space local to a secondary backend can
> be used within Myth. In the documentation it mentions setting the
> storage directories per BE, but I think that only applies to TV
> recording space. I tried to run the video manager on the slave BE  
> and it
> wanted to remove the video files stored on the master BE.
>
> Ideally I would prefer to keep all recording duties on the master BE  
> so
> that the slave BE can be powered off except as needed for watching
> TV/movies. Is there a way to have more media files available to a  
> slave
> BE without causing problems for the master BE?
>
> BTW these are both Mythbuntu 8.04.1 systems if it matters.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> ____
>
> I have a frontend only machine and, while it has a button to import  
> DVD, it won't do it.  It is missing the transcode engine, which is  
> part of the backend.  So rule that option out.  I assume you would  
> also need a database to log the rips as well.  I have not tried it,  
> but a frontend-secondary backend souds like something to try.

Running a slave backend without any tuners is not a supported  
configuration. It might work, it might set your cat on fire.
If you want to use your new machine for storage, NFS export paths from  
that machine, mount them on your master backend and use the paths as  
if they were local. That is a supported configuration.

-Brad

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