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HELP -- Can't backup!!
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Posted by: bschwarz6

I am trying to backup my 14 hour Tivo's drive to upgrade to twin 120 gig Maxtor drives with a TurboNet, but i am unable to. I run the line:

mfsbackup -6so /mnt/c/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

to try to backup before installing the TurboNet, but i get the following error:

/mnt/c/tivo.bak : No such file or directory

I was also having troubles mounting my drives, but found that i could mount hda1 of type 'devpts' is this correct? Could this have something to do with it?

Other info: I am using Tiger's version 2 software, as well as Hinsdale's guide to try to upgrade.

Thanks in advance
Brad

Posted by: stormsweeper

Tell us about your computer setup. Namely, how your drives are connected.

FWIW, devpts is NOT the corect tye for your HD.

Posted by: bschwarz6

the reason that i chose devpts for my file system type is because it was the only one that would work. whenever i would try to mount my C drive, it would tell me that i had to specify a file system.

My system is set up as follows:
primary master - C Drive
primary slave - NEW TiVo A drive (120 gig)
secondary master - old TiVo drive (14 gig)
secondary slave - CD-ROM drive

There is also a bunch of SCSI stuff hooked up, but i disconnected it from the motherboard just for simplicity in UNIX.

any help would be great.

Thanks,
Brad

Posted by: TxPres

I am no Linux expert, but shouldn't the backup command be:

mfsbackup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

Not sure what the c you have in your cmd line will do?

Posted by: bschwarz6

the c in my 'mfsbackup -6so /mnt/c/tivo.bak /dev/hdc ' line is simply a mounted drive. insead of your line 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos' i used 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c' for my own simplicity

does anyone else have any idea what format i should be using to mount these drives?? or has anyone else run into a problem like this?

TIA,
Brad

Posted by: bschwarz6

okay ... heres a little update ...

FIRST : THANK YOU to everyone who has given their help so far .. i am really itching to get this thing working.

NOW ... i have enlisted the help of another person's computer to try this in, and i am not getting the following error when i try to backup

Backup Failed: /mnt/c/tivo.bak: Success

TIA
Brad

Posted by: stormsweeper

Do you run Windows2000 or XP? If so, you probably can't save your file on that drive.