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I'm Not Sure How to Configure My iTunes/Apple TV for This Odd Setup
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<blockquote data-quote="slakrboy" data-source="post: 1532022" data-attributes="member: 309119"><p><strong>Homesharing iTunes Content</strong></p><p></p><p>Here is how I've solved the problem (YMMV):</p><p></p><p>I have two Mac Mini's that I use as servers. One Mac Mini - late 2012 - (svr01) is the primary for everything (DNS, Plex, iTunes, Filesharing, VMWare Fusion, etc) and the other Mac Mini - mid 2011 - (svr02) is the secondary for everything. </p><p></p><p>SVR01 has a 16TB NAS connected via USB3, and houses all my iTunes content, file shares, and Virtual machines. I use home sharing to share things out to my 3 Apple TV3's, and Plex to share to everything else (various laptops, Roku's, tablets, phones, etc). All of my context has been de-DRM'd. Backups of my content are made to my secondary server every nigh using SuperDuper!</p><p></p><p>Every once in a while - when I think of it, I import the backups into SVR02's iTunes library so everything matches. Svr02 is also shared out via home sharing and Plex. </p><p></p><p>The ATV's can see both servers, and my family knows to select svr01 when choosing which library to connect to, same goes for Plex. If something should happen to svr01, they simply select svr02 and everything just works.</p><p></p><p>svr02 has 4 2TB drives set up in RAID 0 using SoftRAID (I have a LOT of content), which so far has worked well but I'm afraid of when one of the disks fail, then my backup is out of commission. I'm in the process of acquiring another disk enclosure and more disks to recreate what I have on my primary server, but it's expensive...</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>slakrboy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slakrboy, post: 1532022, member: 309119"] [b]Homesharing iTunes Content[/b] Here is how I've solved the problem (YMMV): I have two Mac Mini's that I use as servers. One Mac Mini - late 2012 - (svr01) is the primary for everything (DNS, Plex, iTunes, Filesharing, VMWare Fusion, etc) and the other Mac Mini - mid 2011 - (svr02) is the secondary for everything. SVR01 has a 16TB NAS connected via USB3, and houses all my iTunes content, file shares, and Virtual machines. I use home sharing to share things out to my 3 Apple TV3's, and Plex to share to everything else (various laptops, Roku's, tablets, phones, etc). All of my context has been de-DRM'd. Backups of my content are made to my secondary server every nigh using SuperDuper! Every once in a while - when I think of it, I import the backups into SVR02's iTunes library so everything matches. Svr02 is also shared out via home sharing and Plex. The ATV's can see both servers, and my family knows to select svr01 when choosing which library to connect to, same goes for Plex. If something should happen to svr01, they simply select svr02 and everything just works. svr02 has 4 2TB drives set up in RAID 0 using SoftRAID (I have a LOT of content), which so far has worked well but I'm afraid of when one of the disks fail, then my backup is out of commission. I'm in the process of acquiring another disk enclosure and more disks to recreate what I have on my primary server, but it's expensive... Hope this helps Cheers, slakrboy [/QUOTE]
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