[mythtv-users] multiple back ends

[Kevin Kuphal]

jack snodgrass wrote:
> I have a backend and a frontend server  .20-ish.
> They share a /mnt/store using nfs.
>
> I want to run commercial and transcoding jobs on
> my front end server when I'm not using it ( middle of the
> night... morning, after noons, etc. )
>
> I can fire off the mythbackend process on it and it
> contacts the master backend server.... now what do
> I do to make use of the 2nd backend?
>   
Nothing really.  Just make sure in mythtv-setup that you have the boxes 
checked to run the various jobs on that host and you don't have the 
global "Run jobs on recording host only" checked.  The second backend 
should pick up jobs whenever it is on.

Kevin