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Any disadvantage to preserve recordings?
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Posted by: jhanson

I'm planning on upgrading my HDVR2 with a 120g Samsung drive this weekend. I already upgraded once with a Maxtor drive which ran very hot and lasted less than a week.

Is there any disadvantage (besides time) to preserving the recordings rather than just the main system files? I've seen talk about preserving original partitions but wasn't sure if this was important.

I'm planning to use the MFSTools command in Hinsdale:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

What difference does it make if the MFSTools command doesn't preserve the partitions like the dd command would?

Thanks for any insight!

John

Posted by: Websteria

I upgraded my SA series 2 80 this last weekend and preserved recordings using the exact command you show. It worked like a dream, although it took 11 hours to copy the 80 hour drive to my samsung 120gb.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Robert S

Under most circumstances, copying with a MFS Tools pipe with -Tao is very similar to using dd. It doesn't change very much.

The reason MFS Tools is preferred is that it can increase the size of your swap partition (which might come in handy if you add a second drive) and it expands the image to fill the drive in the same step.