[mythtv-users] Confused about secondary backend storage - howto use it (trunk)?

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 06:50:53PM +0000, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> Thanks a lot! This cleared up most doubts for me. There are just a couple left:
> - why NFS? My (small scale) tests have shown it to be approximately
> the same speed as CIFS (samba), and samba seems safer to me;

'cause I'm a *nix guy.  No windows here in my house currently so no samba.
You could use either, but I'd do some research on the mailing list before I
made a decision if I were you.

> - do the remote dirs have to have the same exact path as the local
> ones, so that mythbackend can identify them as being the same, or
> could I mount a "/myth" dir on the frontend as a "/media/myth" on the
> backend?

No, they don't have to be the same.  If they are, then you don't have to
configure a Storage Group on the slave backends, because by default they
will use the master's directory list if a local version of a Storage Group
does not exist.  If you mount the directories in a different place on the
slave than on the master, then you have to create a local Storage Group
on the slave and setup the proper directory names there.  Myth's Storage
Group code is smart enough to realize that they are the same directories
on both servers, just mounted in different places.

--
Chris