What if power fails on the dvr server (Linux) or it’s gracefully shutdown mid-recording…? Upon restoration, will it start recording again or will it have to be manually restarted?
In my experience (running in a Linux custom container), it restarts gracefully. The install process sets up a startup script for your distro/version. I actually had a power-failure last week and new programs were subsequently recorded as expected. Cannot say how it handled any in-progress recordings at power-failure time (never looked). The underlying DB is designed for robustness and so far no issues. (It also performs nightly backups of the DB automatically for additional safety.)
Thank you. I do know as I have rebooted my server since channels deployment that it does restart as a service gracefully. That’s important to me as well. What I’m really interested to know is will it restart recordings that were in progress at time of shutdown.
I live in an area that’s prone to power outages. My server / storage have a ups but that ups is attached to the server to shut it down automatically after several minutes of on-battery time to preserve power.
I setup channels along with a cable card and an hd homerun prime to replace my subscription to google tv who’s price keeps going up annoyingly. All equipment is attached to ups battery backup.
I’m trying to determine how much hands on engagement I need to commit to to ensure my recordings continue to happen if power happens to go out. Obviously a future scheduled recording I assume will be fine provided powers back up at that time.
I’m curious how much will channels automatically recover on its own suffice it to say.
Thank you for your time and advice.
This seems like something that would be pretty straight-forward to setup an experiment to figure it out... Schedule a throw-away recording. Wait for it to start. Shutdown/restart the server. Observe whether or not the recording automatically starts up again.
Yes.
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Perfect. Thanks.