Adding raid guide / MediaTomb is disappearing

[obsidiansun]

Hi there -

I want to thank you for putting together such a great all-in-one-place guide for putting together a media server - I'm up and running now, and though there was a bunch of stuff I had to learn, I enjoyed it, and your guide certainly made it much easier.

Some other folks have suggested adding a little more to the section on MediaTomb, which would be great. For my part, a guide about putting together and mounting a RAID array would have been the most useful - I wound up finding one here - http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch26_:_Linux_Software_RAID#Prepare_The_Partitions_With_FDISK
-and it was really the only thing missing. I had wanted to put 4 physical drives together in RAID5 and have them behave as one volume - this got me there.

But to the point - MediaTomb has taken to disappearing from my list of media servers lately. Restarting the machine doesn't seem to fix it. I'm streaming to a Western Digital Live, whcih still sees the TVersity server on my windows machine. Also - now that this is happening, when I try to look at the web admin page for it, it can't find anything -

So does this server run automatically on startup? It has before - and if its stopped, I guess I need to know how to make it start up from now on...

Any help?

Thanks again for the guide!

[Ian]

Hi obsidiansun and welcome to the forums.

Yeah MediaTomb is not something I use myself so I'd need to get up to speed on it before I could put together some how-tos. As a result I'm afraid I can't shed any light on why yours has stopped running. Maybe the clue is in the logs? Perhaps you've installed/uninstalled something subsequently that has broken it? I guess you could try uninstalling it and re-installing it. That might do the trick?

Thanks for the link to the RAID how-to. As you may have read I went with FlexRAID but I know many people prefer traditional RAID so that how-to will come in handy for them.

Sorry I cannot be of more specific help with your MediaTomb problem.

Ian.

[obsidiansun]

Thanks, all the same, Ian - I'll plug along. Cheers!