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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Fri Oct 30 19:41 , Ronald Frazier <ron@ronfrazier.net> sent:<BR>
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</ron@ronfrazier.net></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">>> The main advantage is you don't have to setup the frontends, but that</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> is only an advantage if *all* of your videos are in storage groups. If</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> you do the hybrid setup it actually becomes a disadvantage because now</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> you are doing the local setup and the storage group setup. The other</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> main advantage of storage groups is being able to distribute your</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> video library storage across your network, but if you have all your</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> videos on one system then that isn't an advantage. So in general it</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> would be easier and simpler to just go without storage groups rather</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">>> than doing the hybrid approach.</span><BR>
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>You know, I was thinking the same thing reading this thread....what's<BR>
>the advantage if you have to do twice the work? However then you said<BR>
>something, and then it clicked in my mind. As you said, storage groups<BR>
>allow you to distribute the video library across the network. I<BR>
>imagine the hybrid setup could be valuable there. It could be a pain<BR>
>having to mount multiple systems onto each other. Each system would<BR>
>also have to be running a copy of the NFS server. However, with<BR>
>storage groups, you could just setup your master backend to run the<BR>
>NFS server and have all the ISOs stored there. Then all the other<BR>
>machines only need the NFS client and would only need to mount one<BR>
>system. All your non-ISOs could then be distributed as you please<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fmythtv.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmythtv-users" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"></span></a>Thanks again everyone. The thread makes interesting reading tor anyone facing the dilemma. No time to test this evening. I want to try to get a step closer to solving my Live TV issue.<BR>
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Cheers!<BR>
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Marius<BR>
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