[mythtv-users] How is personal setup stored?

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Bathelt, Manfred wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I use MythTV for some month now and my family is _very_ pleased about it.
> After vaporizing my PC´s power supply last weekend and now getting 
> some new hardware, I think about installing MythTV + Linux on a CDROM 
> or USB memory, to allow spindown of my disks while idling (and save 
> energy/heat/noise).
>  
> My question is:
> where is the personal setup of MythTV stored? I mean which movie to 
> record, whether to record it once or every day,...
> Is it stored within mySQL or using some config-files?

All settings (with one exception) are stored in mySQL. The exception is 
on which ip address to find the mySQL server....

What you could do is run mySQL on a different computer and let the disks 
of the mythtv box do a spin down.

Cheers,

Rudy