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Restore Failed
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Posted by: skybleuwaters

Following the Hinsdale upgrade.

Got to step 8, restoring. Restore gets to just over 60% then quits. Error message reads "Restore Failed: Premature end of backup data."

Tired step 8 twice and get the same message?

Any ideas what is wrong?

TIA

Posted by: Robert S

Is your backup the same size as the one on the server?

Posted by: skybleuwaters

Hi Thanks.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I'm starting with my original drive. 40g I guess. Backed it up, Step #7, to my 20g Windows drive. That seemed to all work fine. Went to Step # 8, restore. Seems to go along fine for awhile, then fails at 60% restored. Tried the restore command twice, quits at the same spot.

How do I check to see if it is the same sizes.

Sorry for the ignorance, this is my first attempt at Tivo upgrade and Linux.

I thought I followed all the steps very closely.

Posted by: Robert S

Oh, you were asking for places to download backups, so I assumed you'd downloaded one. There are some things that can go worong with FTP.

How about trying a direct transfer (without recordings)

mfsbackup -so - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -xpi - /dev/hdc

If that works I would think your backup file is corrupt.

Posted by: skybleuwaters

Sorry for the confusion, the other post was for another Tivo I got off ebay.

The one I'm currently working on, I'm just trying to replace the A drive with a bigger 120g drive.

The command you references above does a complete drive copy correct? Recorded shows and all?

I am right now doing another backup, as you said it could be corrupted.

This is kinda fun, even though I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing. My patner here thinks is positive I'm going to screw it up and the Tivo will be dead. I'm somewhat more confident than that.

Thanks. I'll let you know what happens.

Posted by: Robert S

No, if you read my post carefully you'll see the words 'without recordings' in parenthesis. (The backup options are different). This is to try and isolate the problem to either the backup file or the backup process.

MFS Tools shouldn't screw up your TiVo (unlike dd, which can go badly wrong if you're careless!).