[mythtv-users] How is a master backend identified?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 25, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Rob Rosenfeld wrote:

> I've been running a master backend on the same hardware for years and
> it's slowly dying.  There's one HD (system) with the OS and MythTV
> install and another (data) with the storage space for mythtv files.
> I'm going to build a new system and would like to start with a fresh
> system build from scratch.  Once I have the new system in place with
> MythTV installed, how do I configure the MythTV instance it to be
> recognized as my master backend?
>
> Alternately, how do I promote a slave backend to master status?  I've
> done a bit of forum searching and Googling and the only relevant
> thread I found was:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/283387
>
> But this involves manual updates to the database which doesn't sound
> very clean.  Is that the best (only?) way or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,

Change the IP address to the same as "this backend" address in mythtv- 
setup and it will start up as the master. That's how it knows if it's  
a master or slave.