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<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:15:25 -0400<br>> From: raymond@wagnerrp.com<br>> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?<br>> <br>> On 3/11/2012 15:45, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:<br>> >>> what I should really do is have a slave backend running on my<br>> >>> fileserver that is connected to the backend via a gigabit switch to<br>> >>> also process commercial flagging. I think I'm going to do that now<br>> >>> actually...<br>> >> You shouldn't run a slave backend unless you want to record using it.<br>> >> If you just want to run jobqueue tasks, use mythjobqueue instead.<br>> > Would you mind explaining that a bit further? I currently have a slave<br>> > backend that I set up entirely for the purpose of processing jobs. It has<br>> > no defined tuners and very little storage. I have NFS mounts to match the<br>> > defined storage groups on my master backend (i.e. there's a /mythv_storage1,<br>> > /mythtv_storage2, etc on both). It works fine, but if there's a better way,<br>> > I'm all for it.<br>> <br>> Kill 'mythbackend', and then run 'mythjobqueue'. Nothing more to it. <br>> You've already performed all the necessary setup for the slave backend <br>> you have doing the same task. It will run indefinitely, processing <br>> whatever jobs you have it set up to be allowed to, until you manually <br>> terminate it through the terminal, or your distro's init system.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Since doing this, I had a bunch of transcodes (only, transcodes, commflags are fine) fail. I tried them all a few times, and they always failed. I only do transcode jobs on the slave backend, so today on a whim, I shutdown mythjobqueue and fired up mythbackend on the slave and re-tried all those failed jobs....every single one of them succeeded fine.</div> </div></body>
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