[mythtv-users] Mythtv away from home.
Florian Bittner
flo at flobittner.de
Sat Oct 11 08:19:11 UTC 2008
Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 03:27:15 schrieb Jesse F. Hughes:
> Hello.
>
> I am running mythbackend on my desktop machine at home. I'd like to
> be able to transfer the recordings to a portable hard drive so that I
> can use mythtv when I'm away from home. To this end, I'd like to run
> mythbackend on a laptop that has no TV card at all.
>
> Now, it seems to me that this should be doable two ways, but I don't
> know the details for either of them.
>
> (1) Use nuvexport to copy the files to the portable hard drive and
> then import the files into the laptop's mythbackend.
>
> (2) Copy all of the files and some of the databases to the hard
> drive. When I start up mythbackend, it will already know about all
> the recordings I have.
>
> Option (1) is better if I'm being choosy about what I'm taking, I
> suppose. Option (2) might be simpler and require less user
> interaction. In either case, I don't really know the details of how
> to do this. For (1): what tools do I need? What is the exact
> procedure? For (2): Which databases should I copy?
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
Have a look here: http://www.matthicks.com/2008/03/myth-assistant.html
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