On 6/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Hodge</b> <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/21/06, Matthias Thyroff <<a href="mailto:Matthias@thyroff.net">Matthias@thyroff.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 08:29 schrieb Steve Hodge:<br>> > I think you're still missing the point. A backup is not necessary -
<br>> > losing some recordings isn't that much of a problem. But if you've got<br>> > multiple drives in your machine anyway, it'd be nice to not lose all<br>> > your recordings, and it'd be nice to be able to set that up without
<br>> > using RAID. RAID 5 costs you capacity and is less easy to add or<br>> > remove drives from.<br>><br>> You could set up a userjob to move the files to other filesystems in a list<br>> of configured filesystems, and create a link in your original mythtv
<br>> filesystem, and configure myth to follow links when deleting. The filesystems<br>> are configured in a config file. The script checks for free space on each fs<br>> and moves the file to the filesystem with most free space.
<br>><br>> Filesystems Could be additional disks or network shares (does "follow links<br>> when deleting" work?).<br><br>I think that would work.</blockquote><div><br>Someone mentioned a patch to Mythtv that would allow it to record to multiple directories. Wouldn't that in essence solve this problem?
<br><br>I too am nervous about having all my Mythtv storage under LVM (as recommended by all the HOWTOs). I was thinking for a while how to mitigate this. My OS partition is already RAID 1 on two 40Gb disks by I realize doing this for recordings would be wasteful/overcomplicated.
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