[mythtv-users] Loosely coupled slave FE/BE

[Peter A. Daly]

If I were looking into this (which I am not), I'd look into doing an "rsync"
to sync the recording directory, then doing a mysqldump and restore of the
tables related to recordings...essentially cloning the master system.  I'd
not set them up to know about one another, rather try to clone the master in
a way that doesn't mess things up.

I reality it's a bit more complicated that that, but that may provide some
ideas for you to run with.

-Pete
http://www.mythpvr.com

On 11/30/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 8:24 AM, White Joe wrote:
>
> I am in the planning stages of putting together a second MythTV FE/BE to
> go in the kitchen.  Its gonna be a Mini-ITX box attached to an LCD monitor.
> The plan is to make it portable so that we can easly take it on vacations or
> down to the clubhouse to play recorded shows and DVDs for the kids'
> sleepovers.  I will need to write some scripts that copy designated vids to
> the slave, detach it from the network, bring a local DB on line, register
> the tranferred vids and do anything else that promotes it to master status.
> I don't see any HOWTOs or many posts refering to the idea of decoupling.
> But before I got started, I wanted to ask if its already been done.
>
> Thanks,
> jw
>
>
> It's been discussed in the past for the purposes of a car-installed Myth
> system or a laptop that will be a backend when away from home. I don't
> believe anyone has actually implemented this, but I think MythArchive will
> give you a good headstart on picking programs and putting them into a format
> that you could then restore from the MythArchive menu. I would think you'd
> just need to switch the db on change your backend IP to the local machine
> (or edit a host entry to fake it into thinking the local machine is the IP
> address that used to be your real backend - this might be easier), and
> initiation the MythArchive restore.
>
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