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<blockquote data-quote="NickName" data-source="post: 146970" data-attributes="member: 21675"><p>This may help you all.</p><p>I had Windows decide to corrupt it's partition (during school holidays!) taking my MP off air for a day whilst I did a complete rebuild of XP, MP etc...</p><p>Needless to say WAF & KAF (kid appreciation factor) reached an all time low... :-(</p><p></p><p>I now use Linux to manage my boot partition (Grub boot loader). When the PC boots, I choose either linux (MythTV is a work in progress), or I choose XP. When I choose the XP option I am then offered 2 different XPs to run. Both XPs are identical except on different physical drives. They both run MediaPortal and both use the one version of the TV database. Please understand, they both have there own TV database but I keep them synched through a script.</p><p>The script runs when the PC boots (but before MP starts), it checks if the TV Database on the other drive is newer, and if so, copies it over the current drives copy. That way my future recordings always happen and my TV recordings are always accessible in either copy of MP.</p><p>NOTE: My recordings, DVDs, etc. are stored on a seperate raid array.</p><p></p><p>You may say 'running two XPs and two MPs is a pain'. Well yes and no. If XP corrupts a drive again, I just boot the other XP. My aim is have MythTV or LinuxMCE as a third option.</p><p>I really, really, really need to have TV, DVDs, etc. available regardless of an OS chucking it in as my wife is starting to say "Can't we just a have a TV, set top box and DVD player"... sigh...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, you guys could just copy over the TV database as I have and if you map the remote recordings drive to the same drive letter locally then your copied TV database would be correct too! NOTE: you may need to map the drive on EVERY boot (use a script) as MP doesn't work well with mapped drives otherwise.</p><p></p><p>hope that all helps,</p><p></p><p>Nick Name</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickName, post: 146970, member: 21675"] This may help you all. I had Windows decide to corrupt it's partition (during school holidays!) taking my MP off air for a day whilst I did a complete rebuild of XP, MP etc... Needless to say WAF & KAF (kid appreciation factor) reached an all time low... :-( I now use Linux to manage my boot partition (Grub boot loader). When the PC boots, I choose either linux (MythTV is a work in progress), or I choose XP. When I choose the XP option I am then offered 2 different XPs to run. Both XPs are identical except on different physical drives. They both run MediaPortal and both use the one version of the TV database. Please understand, they both have there own TV database but I keep them synched through a script. The script runs when the PC boots (but before MP starts), it checks if the TV Database on the other drive is newer, and if so, copies it over the current drives copy. That way my future recordings always happen and my TV recordings are always accessible in either copy of MP. NOTE: My recordings, DVDs, etc. are stored on a seperate raid array. You may say 'running two XPs and two MPs is a pain'. Well yes and no. If XP corrupts a drive again, I just boot the other XP. My aim is have MythTV or LinuxMCE as a third option. I really, really, really need to have TV, DVDs, etc. available regardless of an OS chucking it in as my wife is starting to say "Can't we just a have a TV, set top box and DVD player"... sigh... Anyway, you guys could just copy over the TV database as I have and if you map the remote recordings drive to the same drive letter locally then your copied TV database would be correct too! NOTE: you may need to map the drive on EVERY boot (use a script) as MP doesn't work well with mapped drives otherwise. hope that all helps, Nick Name [/QUOTE]
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