[mythtvnz] About to install Myth for the first time.

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Brett Davidson <brett at davidson.gen.nz> wrote:
> Nick wrote:
>
>>you would use mythnews for, eg, slashdot and mythnetvision >for a feed
>>with video, eg tv3 news or youtube.
>
> Ta.
>
>>mount the separate drive on /var/lib/mysql/ , but probably >better to
>>put / on the 10K drive and configure the raid system for your
>>recordings and video using storage groups.
>
> Hmm. Will need to add another 10K drive then as my / is currently configured as mirrored 7200rpm drives.

Then put the database on / and use the 10k drive for something else.
All you need to do is keep the recordings separate to the database, it
doesn't matter if the database is on /

>
> I was going to :
> Have a redundant / and Myth config.
> Use fast drive for MythTV db to not affect system too much. (Was told Myth db activiy can be heavy).
> Can restore daily mysqldumps to / if needed if disk dies.

mythbuntu runs a database backup every week out of /etc/cron.weekly/.
My preference is to move that to /etc/cron.daily/ and change the
sttings to keep 21 days backups (the default is about 4 and if you
don't notice a db problem for a few days, you can run out of backups.