I was thinking the same thing yesterday when I finished setting up MythTV at my office. I really only wanted one way communication so I don't think it would be too difficult. I am only interested in recordings, although I don't think music, video, or pictures would pose too much of a problem. Anybody see something I am missing in copying the files overnight then dumping the 'recorded' & 'recorded markup' table to the other box?I like the Rsync idea or some such solution, but duplicating the database is overkill and will do exactly what you are saying here. I'd suggest creating a custom SQL script that only duplicates the needed tables or one that runs and deletes the scheduled recordings information from the scheduled recordings table (I don't know the real name for that table). This would allow you to have the same data and access to the data on both systems without having to have the schedule and even the hardware config the same (if you didn't copy the hardware data).
The first questionthat comes to mind (it is a small concern) though is what happens when you delete a viewed file form the second house (slave system). It will reappear the next time things are sync'd because it was not deleted on the master. It would take a pretty significant change to make that sort of thing go away, and probably not worth it.
Other than that you could duplicate the whole database and then run a "delete from ScheduledPrograms" script to clear that table. All would be well with the scheduled progs on the slave then.
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