[mythtv-users] thoughts on a combined backend/NAS box?

[jedi]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:05:14PM -0400, Joseph Fry wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'll just put out there that no one in their right mind should ever use
> > > > RAID5.  It's just not safe.  I'd recommend at least RAID6 or possibly

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> > You really need at least 2 copies of your data
> > if you really care about it. Nothing short of this is going to be really
> > any
> > improvement. It will just be more expensive.
> >
> 
> If your running a critical system in a high availability environment...
> sure 2 copies is good.  I could argue that you really only need one copy...
> a tested offline backup.

   My recordings are treated as disposable. I make no special effort to preserve
them. Any form of disk aggregation is just for convenience.

   My database is backed up to every frontend and backend.

   My small (60G) media files  are backed up to every frontend and backend with sufficient space.

   My big (12TB) media files have one backup copy and MythTV uses the backup copy.

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