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Tivo Upgrade Question
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Posted by: dsheli

Hello,
I have a tivo back up. When I backed it up I had a Fat32 drive. I do not have that drive anymore. Is it possible to take that backup and put it on a new tivo drive from an xp drive? I know you can't make backups to a xp drive.
Thanks,
David

Posted by: weaknees

Sure - you can read from NTFS drives, just not write to them.

Michael

Posted by: dsheli

Great. Were do I put it on my C drive? Just on the bare drive not in any folder?
David

Posted by: classicsat

Anywhere, in root oe a temp folder, anything you can easily access from a command line.

Posted by: dsheli

Well I am having trouble restoring the file. It says it is not found. When I am in the command line I
mount /dev/hda1 /

Than when i want to make the copy I
mfsrestore -s 127 -bzpi /tivo.bak /dev/hdab

Than it says the file is not found.
I must be doing something wrong.
Thanks,
David

Posted by: gtrogue

You need to mount the drive correctly.
You can use a command like:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c

if c exists.

or you could make a new directory:

mkdir /mnt/dos

and then mount your drive:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

Then you need to use the right restore command. On an S2:

mfsrestore -s 127 -bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

or

mfsrestore -s 127 -bzpi /mnt/c/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

if you used my first example.

I believe you need to remove the -s 127 if your restoring to the original Tivo A: drive.
The /dev/hdb assumes that the drive you want to restore to is connected as the primary slave. The tivo.bak assumes that's what you called your backup.

You'll need to expand the recording capacity after you test the restore if your restoring to a larger drive.

Posted by: dsheli

Great!!! I got it to work. Thanks so much for your help. I think I am going to start doing some hacks to the tivo unit.
Thanks,
David

Posted by: buck00_01

Tivo is new to me please tell me if i could copy dvd's to my tivo

Posted by: buck00_01

Please help...I wondering if i should get a Tivo, what are the best quaities of having one

Posted by: gtrogue

Dude, check the FAQ and the Tivo website for the benefits of Tivo. Plus, try the search function and read some of the threads in the forum. There are probably a bajillion threads answering your questions.