[mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV

[Fedor Pikus]

On 8/8/05, chris at cpr.homelinux.net <chris at cpr.homelinux.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:45:55AM -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> > This way, you pull the disk out of source computer, life goes on. You
> > plug it into destination, RAID reconstructs, now you have your
> > destination disk updated. You take the drive out of destination, it
> > stays as the mirror of the source disk until you update it again.
> 
> Are you using software RAID?  Are you on a budget?  If so then you can
> use just two drives total (one per machine), assuming you're willing to
> leave the playback machine shut down when you go to fetch new shows.

That's the minimal option, yes. With one more drive, you can have
playback machine operational all the time. If the moving drive is
hot-pluggable, you don't even need to shut down machines.

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