[mythtv-users] [mythtv] mike's description of how SG should be used

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Sep 15 20:38:28 UTC 2010


  On 09/15/2010 03:32 PM, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 09/15/10 09:36, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> So, for you, create the Default Storage Group on the master
>> backend with directories:
>>
>> /myth/sanfrancisco/recordings
>> /myth/newyork/recordings
>>
>> and Videos Storage Group with directories:
>>
>> /myth/sanfrancisco/videos
>> /myth2/sanfrancisco/videos
>> /myth/newyork/videos
>> /myth2/newyork/videos
>>
>> And you don't need the NFS mounts.
> so i did that this evening and made sure that the Video Storage Groups
> were only defined on the MBE and when i did a rescan on my FE i lost all
> the metadata for the videos on the SBE. as far as i can see, the MBE has
> to be able to get at the files to serve them to the FE.
>
> the FE never goes near the SBE.
>
> have i misunderstood something?

Seems the use of SGs in MythVideo differs, so you'll either need to keep 
your NFS mounts or create overrides on each host, but only for 
MythVideo's special SGs.  TV and database backup works as I described.

Mike


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