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Feasability study for a multiroom, multi-location K system.

brodricj said:
When 2 servers are in a group and you import content, does the entirety of that content go only on one or the other server, or will the system divide it amongst both servers wherever it best fits to balance the available capacity? Once servers are ungrouped, can they operate completely independently of each other without issue? I'm just trying to understand the complexities of grouping/ungrouping servers and replication. I bought a 2nd 1U server so I could do my own replications once the need to upgrade capacity arose.
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Expanding on Mike's comment, content being imported will import to only one server, it is not divided between two Servers, which is why they can operate independently when ungrouped. (Different way of saying what Mike already stated)


Jim
 
I too am a newbie to this forum, but a K user for 6 years. I recently upgraded my two 5U servers (1 traded in for a 3U; 1 system for sale on this forum in the marketplace) and in the process, my dealer inadvertently deleted about 450 of my 630 movies. I just completed painstakingly reloading my movies one by one (dealer's bulkloader worked for 40 movies then went down for the count) over several weekend trips to my vacation home where my K system resides.

Is there a way I could have avoided the one-by-one reload with an authorized replication from K? In other words, is there a central storage that has all of my content available for reload in the event this ever happens again?
 
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dtmps, sorry to hear about that issue (frankly that's the first time I've heard of an actual loss during replication). It would be interesting to know how the loss occurred, to perhaps help prevent this happening to someone else.

To my knowledge, K does not have a replication that does what you are seeking. They do have a service (or did at one time) that would allow for your content to be replicated by K, at their facility, but you still needed to get the KDISKs (with preloaded content) to them.

I also sent a PM.

Jim
 
Replication issue

Thanks, Jim.

What happened is that my dealer sent the drives with my content still on them back to K without having replicating them on my new system. The CEO at my dealer was gracious and great (but at least one of his installers tried to make it sound as if it was K's mistake, rather than just 'fessing up and saying they "forgot to" replicate my content before sending the drives to K). The failure of my dealer's bulk loader after only 40 movies reloading was what made the reload process (hundreds of DVDs) so tedious and maddening.

I guess I was hopeful that since K has their DVD loan process for metadata they might have actual movie data as well for those who can prove ownership.

Thanks for your answer, and the PM!
 
Perhaps Jim has answered this via PM, but I'm quite sure when you send a DVD to Kaleidescape for processing they don't write a copy of it to their servers, they just store the bookmarking information. So to answer the question, no, they wouldn't be able to write a copy of the movies you lost in the manner suggested.
 
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