Comments on: Sage TV on the Windows Home Server http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html The Podcast for the Home Server Enthusiast. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:16:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bdonald http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1555 bdonald Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:08:56 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1555 Wayner, exactly the reason I run a seperate SageTV server outside of the WHS realm. Although it's a nice concept and cuts out some power consumption, my IT background says Redundancy! Since SageTV is hooked up to 2 other TV's as well as 3 computers, the WAF would instantly disappear if I had to wait 2 or 3 days to get to rebuild the WHS. As it stands right now, the SageTV server is backed up nightly to the WHS, and I have 2 1tb drives in it set to a RAID 1 config. If the Sage box dies I can restore it from the WHS after a couple of replacement parts, and if the WHS dies I can live without it for a few days while rebuilding. Both at the same time and it's havoc. Wayner, exactly the reason I run a seperate SageTV server outside of the WHS realm. Although it’s a nice concept and cuts out some power consumption, my IT background says Redundancy! Since SageTV is hooked up to 2 other TV’s as well as 3 computers, the WAF would instantly disappear if I had to wait 2 or 3 days to get to rebuild the WHS. As it stands right now, the SageTV server is backed up nightly to the WHS, and I have 2 1tb drives in it set to a RAID 1 config. If the Sage box dies I can restore it from the WHS after a couple of replacement parts, and if the WHS dies I can live without it for a few days while rebuilding. Both at the same time and it’s havoc.

]]> By: SageTV Add-In Feature: #2 MediaShrink : Home Server Show http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1455 SageTV Add-In Feature: #2 MediaShrink : Home Server Show Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:03:12 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1455 [...] The bane of the HTPC users existance.  In my write-up about why I use SageTV on my Windows Home Server box, I talked about how I like to avoid transcoding gymnastics.  One of the reasons I chose SageTV is [...] [...] The bane of the HTPC users existance.  In my write-up about why I use SageTV on my Windows Home Server box, I talked about how I like to avoid transcoding gymnastics.  One of the reasons I chose SageTV is [...]

]]> By: wayner http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1293 wayner Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:18 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1293 @mvanzante - I don't think it works that way. You can now backup your shared volumes to a drive not part of your storage pool - and I do this to make off-site backups on external hard drives. You may be able to backup your PC backups although I think this requires and addin. But you can't back up your C: system volume. @mvanzante – I don't think it works that way. You can now backup your shared volumes to a drive not part of your storage pool – and I do this to make off-site backups on external hard drives. You may be able to backup your PC backups although I think this requires and addin. But you can't back up your C: system volume.

]]> By: mvanzante http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1291 mvanzante Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:10:42 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1291 Wayner, I could be wrong, but I thought that if you had a drive the was not a part of your storage pool you could use it to back up your system partition. I haven't done this, so maybe it's not as automated and convenient as the client backup, but I think it is a feature built into WHS. Wayner, I could be wrong, but I thought that if you had a drive the was not a part of your storage pool you could use it to back up your system partition. I haven't done this, so maybe it's not as automated and convenient as the client backup, but I think it is a feature built into WHS.

]]> By: Sage TV on Windows Home Server « MS Windows Home Server http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1288 Sage TV on Windows Home Server « MS Windows Home Server Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:56:29 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1288 [...] You can read Jason’s notes here. [...] [...] You can read Jason’s notes here. [...]

]]> By: wayner http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1290 wayner Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:26:05 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1290 I love WHS and I have been using it since the beta - but it has one huge flaw and that is the inability to backup the system partition. I am using Sage on WHS and i recently had a failure of the system drive on WHS. If I was running Sage on a client PC I would have simply down a WHS restore and been up and running in no time. With WHS I had to reinstall the OS - which means reinstalling drviers for all of my tuners, IR blasters, firewire, etc. and then reinstalling Sage. For some reason WHS would not allow me to do a server reinstall so I had to buy an extra hard drives and manually copy the 2.5TB of files that I had on my server from old hard drive(s) to new hard drives. This meant that recovering from a failed disk took a few days rather than an hour or less. Being able to backup the system partition is more of an issue when you have apps like SageTV. I love WHS and I have been using it since the beta – but it has one huge flaw and that is the inability to backup the system partition. I am using Sage on WHS and i recently had a failure of the system drive on WHS. If I was running Sage on a client PC I would have simply down a WHS restore and been up and running in no time.

With WHS I had to reinstall the OS – which means reinstalling drviers for all of my tuners, IR blasters, firewire, etc. and then reinstalling Sage. For some reason WHS would not allow me to do a server reinstall so I had to buy an extra hard drives and manually copy the 2.5TB of files that I had on my server from old hard drive(s) to new hard drives. This meant that recovering from a failed disk took a few days rather than an hour or less.

Being able to backup the system partition is more of an issue when you have apps like SageTV.

]]> By: dbone1026 http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1289 dbone1026 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:09:59 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1289 Haha, I agree a thousand times over about the fugly UI. I think going forward SageTV needs to simplify things a bit, there are too many steps involved with setting things up, installing stvis, etc... Take a look at for instance what XBMC and Media Browser has, where there is a plugin repository. SMW is a great improvement, but once again a lot of steps that can be daunting to the average person. There is definitely some promise with SMM on the way, as I think this could really start to bring SageTV a bit more mainstream Haha, I agree a thousand times over about the fugly UI. I think going forward SageTV needs to simplify things a bit, there are too many steps involved with setting things up, installing stvis, etc… Take a look at for instance what XBMC and Media Browser has, where there is a plugin repository. SMW is a great improvement, but once again a lot of steps that can be daunting to the average person. There is definitely some promise with SMM on the way, as I think this could really start to bring SageTV a bit more mainstream

]]> By: diehard http://homeservershow.com/sage-tv-on-the-windows-home-server.html#comment-1285 diehard Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:24:38 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=3005#comment-1285 interesting read, thanks. interesting read, thanks.

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