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help with mfstools 2.0
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Posted by: toyman

Hi I'm trying to tivo bak on drv. hda is boot drv, hdb target( primary slave)
hdc tivo. bak (is here) hdd cr-rom. The file hdc is named tivo.bak. This image
is from a hrd112 and I have hrd 212. mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi /mnt/dos/tivo.
bak /dev/hdb Is this the right command to expand the image? The error
that I get is /mnt/dos/tivo.bak no such file or directory. Thanks Toyman

Posted by: Robert S

Double-talk not understanding. Try (English) to write

Posted by: toyman

hi Robert, On hdc I have an image (tivo. bak) that I want to put on hdb.
This image is from a hdr112 and I want to put it on I hdr212. I have used
the mfsrestore command and I get no such file or directory. My second ?
is what command should I be using to expand to a 212? Thanks again
Toyman

Posted by: Hi8

keep in mind linux/unix is case sensitive -- check your filename carefully.

also, are you sure it's mfsrestore ? not mfstool restore ?

Posted by: Robert S

That's not a tremendous improvement, but I'll see what I can do:

You have a FAT formatted disk on Secondary Master that contains a file called tivo.bak that you want to restore to a disk on Primary Slave.

You will need to follow Hinsdale's instructions for mounting a drive ready for a backup or restore, but the partition will be /dev/hdc1 rather than hda1 as in Hinsdale.

If you do -xzpi rather than -zpi, MFS Tools will expand your image as it's restored.

Unix is case-sensitive, but not on FAT filing systems. If your file is really called C:\TIVO.BAK or C:\tivo.BAK, /mnt/dos/tivo.bak will still work.

mfsrestore and mfstool restore are equivalent. mfsrestore will only work if your environment is setup correctly, on the MFS Tools boot disks, it is. (Use mfstool restore if you're running MFS Tools from a different Linux setup).

Posted by: toyman

Hi again. After taking the advice I get this line "Restore failed: /mnt/dos/tivo.bak: Success. This is a interesting line what does it mean? Thanks Bruce

Posted by: Robert S

It means you can't write to the output file (Tiger probably deserves a nomination for 'least helpful error message', but the competition for that award is fierce).

I don't recall seeing this mentioned on restore before (it comes up quite frequently on backups). I would suspect your target device was wrong. /dev/hdb is your primary slave (drive jumpered as slave on the same cable as your Windows drive).

Posted by: toyman

Robert, hdb is my primary slave. Argh Thanks yet again :!

Posted by: stormsweeper

you need to mount the cdrom, then use that path.