[mythtv-users] USB over IP

[jedi]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:22:26PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> >...
> > If you had a choice between putting say 8 USB tuners on one backend  or
> > building a second backend because you only have 4 USB ports... wouldn't you
> > choose to only run one?  This is assuming of course you are not gaining any
> > other advantage by having two backends, as the OP did not suggest he had any
> > concerns about the ability of his backend to support more tuners.
> 
> If sufficiently beefy your second backend could be your hot spare in
> case of hardware failure.  With religious backups of your database and
> some scripting, you could get your restoration of service time to a
> few minutes.   Get 5 nines (99.999%) WAF. :-)

    I use the extra space on my frontend and backend boxes for all manner
of backups. With even a Revo you will end up with over 100G of free space 
since Linux and MythTV take up so little.

    Cable boxes give me more trouble than Linux PCs.