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Posted by: caleb2003

Hello, I am doing a backup of a UK tivo with dual (30/15 gb) drives to a new 160gb Maxtor drive and using the old A (30gb) as the new B drive.

Using Hinsdales guide and mfstools I have performed the backup of the 2 discs fine.

However I have now put the new 160gb drive in as Primary slave and the 30gb as secondary master, and used the command: mfsrestore -s 127 /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

it has started restore and now displays:

uncompressed backup size: 1031 mb
Restoring 66 of 1031 Mb (6.43%) (173.53% compression)

It has stuck on this 66 of 1031 for the last hour although the compression rates have been going up and down and the HD itself is making all noises of activity.

My questions are, how long is this supposed to take (Hinsdales guide said that it would be quick I didnt think this was a full restore).

If it is a problem should I just leave it or should I turn everything off and start again, if i do would that cause major problems?

Any ideas?

Many thanks

uncompressed backup size: 1031 mb[/FONT]

Posted by: Robert S

A restoring a compressed backup should take about 10 minutes.

Posted by: caleb2003

Thanks, so should i reboot or what?

Posted by: Robert S

You shouldn't reboot with your C: drive mounted read/write. Try using Ctrl-C to halt mfsrestore.

If you can't get control back, do Alt-F2 to go to the alternate console, login and see if you can remount the C: drive read-only:

mount /mnt/dos -o=remount,ro

Posted by: caleb2003

thanks ctrl C did interrupt it.

I tried the same commands again but it stops at 66 again.

any idea what next?

Posted by: caleb2003

Do I need to format the new drive or is it something else>?

Posted by: Robert S

Hmm, I would think the problem is more likely to be on the reading side than the writing, although I confess I don't recall a similar case.

MFS Tools does everything needed to prepare the drives.

Posted by: caleb2003

I think you are right as I have tried restoing the image to the original drives and have had the same problem.

I got hold of an image so am going to put that on cd and restore from that if I can.

If restoring direct from CD, do you need to use the mount commands initially?

Thanks

Posted by: Robert S

You'd mount /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hda1.