[mythtv-users] will this setup work? two backends sharing a db?

[Christopher Maahs]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Chris Germano wrote:

> I have a main backend and frontend on a server. I'm adding a remote slave 
> backend and frontend. Can I share the SQL database that is on the main 
> backend with the remote slave that also has a backend?
> 
> My goal here is to have two backends, hopefully my master will manage the 
> SQL database and the remote will connect. Each backend will have it's own 
> tuner and that's why I want them to share that one database so I can 
> schedule programs for each tuner. That's my main question here, will this 
> work or how can I set it up to work? I want two backends, each with their 
> own tuner that can schedule/watch records with each other. Putting both 
> tuners in the master server isn't a possibility.

This section of the documentation is what you are looking for:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.3

And yes, What you describe is exactly the way non-master backends work.  
The master backend handles all the scheduling.

~cj