On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Lars Oeschey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oeschey@gmail.com">oeschey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/11/17 Christopher Kerr <<a href="mailto:mythtv@theseekerr.com">mythtv@theseekerr.com</a>>:<br>
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Lars Oeschey <<a href="mailto:oeschey@gmail.com">oeschey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> There's nothing fundamentally stopping you from using an Ion system as a<br>
> combined frontend/backend.<br>
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</div>oh, I do know that a ION based system is adequate for FE/BE, *but* I<br>
need to plug my DVB-S card somewhere ;) As far as I have seen, neither<br>
the Revo nor the Zotac boards have a PCI slot?<br>
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Lars<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Ah, missed that it was a PCI tuner.<br><br>A separate backend is probably the way to go, so long as you remember to treat it like a real server. Shouldn't be too hard - my combined backend/frontend gets about 6 reboots a year - about 4 for distro upgrades and associated trouble, and the odd power failure. I've never had mythbackend crash. (That said, this is based only on my own anecdotal experience). Mythfronted is a different story, but crashes there won't affect the recordings.<br>
<br>- Chris<br> </div></div>