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 Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: mythtv and serperate drives |
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can mythtv be used with serperate hard drives, i have a mixture of movies videos and pictures on all 4 drives. I have looked through their docs but it seems to suggest that its better as one drive, whether its a single hard drive or as a raid or lvm. I could do this but it means backing everything up and copying everything back down, and i have a lot of original legally owned dvds ripped onto the drive, forgot to mention this is going from a vista to gentoo box, so i don't really want to have to re-rip all the discs as their isn't a great ripper under linux yet, and im not sure if anydvd and dvd decrypter work well under wine (haven't had chance to check)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: mythtv and serperate drives |
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| Carps wrote: | | can mythtv be used with serperate hard drives, i have a mixture of movies videos and pictures on all 4 drives. I have looked through their docs but it seems to suggest that its better as one drive, whether its a single hard drive or as a raid or lvm. I could do this but it means backing everything up and copying everything back down, and i have a lot of original legally owned dvds ripped onto the drive, forgot to mention this is going from a vista to gentoo box, so i don't really want to have to re-rip all the discs as their isn't a great ripper under linux yet, and im not sure if anydvd and dvd decrypter work well under wine (haven't had chance to check) |
MythVideo plugin (I assume you are talking about it) uses a single entry point folder to look for videos. The only solution I can come back for separate drives is to use symlinks inside that folder pointing to the partitions containing the movies.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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i forgot about symlinks  - good idea i will give them a try
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: mythtv and serperate drives |
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| eduardhc wrote: |
MythVideo plugin (I assume you are talking about it) uses a single entry point folder to look for videos. The only solution I can come back for separate drives is to use symlinks inside that folder pointing to the partitions containing the movies.
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Not true...the MythVideo setting for the video directory allows multiple paths separated by a colon. Here's mine:
| Code: | select * from settings where value='VideoStartupDir'
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+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
| value | data | hostname |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
| VideoStartupDir | /home/tom/backend:/home/tom/frontend | mythfront |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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...as it happens on my frontend, those are however symlinks...one to a local drive on the frontend and one to the mount point of an nfs share on the backend.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:01 am Post subject: Re: mythtv and serperate drives |
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| tld wrote: | | eduardhc wrote: |
MythVideo plugin (I assume you are talking about it) uses a single entry point folder to look for videos. The only solution I can come back for separate drives is to use symlinks inside that folder pointing to the partitions containing the movies.
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Not true...the MythVideo setting for the video directory allows multiple paths separated by a colon. |
Really? Thats awesome.
I remember seeing a setting once upon a time that for Myth recordings you could add multiple drives. I think its in 0.21.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:07 am Post subject: |
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The current stable myth can use different drives/dir for both videos and recordings. See above for video. Storage groups add this feature for recordings
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#storagegroups
I use two dir's (one raid and one not) for both video's and recordings. |
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eduardhc
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: Re: mythtv and serperate drives |
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| tld wrote: | | eduardhc wrote: |
MythVideo plugin (I assume you are talking about it) uses a single entry point folder to look for videos. The only solution I can come back for separate drives is to use symlinks inside that folder pointing to the partitions containing the movies.
Regards |
Not true...the MythVideo setting for the video directory allows multiple paths separated by a colon. Here's mine:
| Code: | select * from settings where value='VideoStartupDir'
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+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
| value | data | hostname |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
| VideoStartupDir | /home/tom/backend:/home/tom/frontend | mythfront |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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...as it happens on my frontend, those are however symlinks...one to a local drive on the frontend and one to the mount point of an nfs share on the backend.
Tom |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:14 am Post subject: |
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sweet will try that later - although i have already made symlinks :p
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| Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: mythtv and serperate drives |
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| beandog wrote: |
Really? Thats awesome.
I remember seeing a setting once upon a time that for Myth recordings you could add multiple drives. I think its in 0.21. |
I think we're referring to two different things there. The setting I was referring to is for the MythVideo directory/directories. As far as actual MythTV recordings, the use of multiple drives was addressed as of 0.21 with the addition of storage groups.
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