[mythtv-users] Hardware Setup Advice

[Chris Kapp]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> as for storage. local is always nice because of speed. with storage
> groups you can move recordings around, but right now there's no way to
> tell Myth "record to these drives, but move older recordings to these
> drives", but you can do it manually, just make sure the user
> permissions on your "archive" drives doesn't allow the user running
> Myth to write to the drive. it's not perfect, but possible. or you can
> just let Myth decide what drive to record to and give it access to
> drives anywhere on your system.
>
> I personally have six 500GB recording drives that I've been running
> for about 4yrs now, on my backend, then on a fileserver, I have five
> 2TB drives that all my media, etc go on, and I can archive recordings
> there later, though I do so manually.
>

Mike wrote a really nice way to deal with storage groups and having an
Archive storage group that Mythtv didn't write to.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/516083#516083