FreeBSD in the background
What's this about?
My primary Myth box is a home-built mini-itx machine running KnoppMyth. My original plan (which I will complete one day!) was to have it tftp-booting from my FreeBSD server under the stairs, so it can run completely silent. For now, however, it has a 10-gig harddrive hanging off the back of it to run the system. Playing back the streams is hard work however (the 1GHz Via chip can just about handle it), so most of the grunt work is delegated to the server...
NFS storage
There's a dedicated 200 gig drive in the server, for program storage, which is NFS exported and mounted on the Myth box; this works very well indeed. I have this mounted at /myth on the server, and then mounted at /myth on the client (having matching mountpoints makes everything much simpler when moving functions between the different machines). The line in /etc/exports on the server looks like this:
/myth -maproot=0 -alldirs -network 192.168.127
and the line in /etc/fstab on the client is:
<server>:/myth/ /myth nfs rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
MySQL
This wasn't really neccessary, but I did it because it could: I already had MySQL running on the server, so this is serving up the mythconverg database.
Moving the database is dead easy; take a backup, stop mythbackend, restore the backup to the new server, tweak mysql.txt on the Myth box, and restart mythbackend. Thus:
Take a backup
You're doing this every night anyway, right? ;) It's:
/usr/bin/mysqldump --user=<user> --password=<passwd> mythconverg
Apache
MythWeb seems to put some considerable strain on apache sometimes, so this is also running on the server.
MORE SOON
