Mythtv 0.22 Storage Groups

[novellahub]

Does anyone know if you define a storage group on a Slave Backend if it overrides the Master Backend or other Slave machines? I have a situation on my Slave Backend last night where the drive filled up. It did not write to any other storage groups on my Master Machine or second slave machine.

I had the impression if the local storage group on the Slave Machine fills up, it would then uttilize the storage group on a remote system.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Storage_Groups

I am not sure if it is a situation where if you overrride a recording schedule (I wanted to record a show on a different tuner) where it threw things off. Maybe it is just a configuration issue.

[ian dobson]

Hi,

Did you define a storage group on your slave backend that points to a directory on your main backend?

Reading the description it looks as if the backend (master or slave) will prefer a local storage directory before it'll use a networked directory. I don't think the slave uses the masters storage list to save data to the masters storage groups.

I hope this makes some sense.

Maybe this would help to findout what mythtv is doing:-
If you run mythbackend with the "-v schedule,file" option, you can
see the weights as they are applied and the logs will show you why
Myth chose one directory over another when determining where to put
the next recording.

Regards
Ian Dobson

[novellahub]

The slave machine has just a local storage group assigned. It is not pointed to master machine at all. I was hoping if the space on the Slave machine is low it would write to the master or second slave machines storage.

Perhaps I have to play with the "Extra Disc Space" option and set the value a bit higher. I had it set to 7 GB (The default is 3 GB). The recording the slave machine was doing is easily 20 GB when completed (3 /12 hour recording of a sports event).