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Posted by: jamminj

is it possible to use someone elses back up??

I have 1 Tivo with the original 40gb drive and added a 40gb drive, all works ok.

I am playing with turbonet and wondered if I was to bugger it up, could I use an image or drive from another Tivo?

The other Tivo would be mine as I have just ordered Mom one for xmas from Dixons, and I have no plans to upgrade it for her just yet :)

Thanks again
Jason aka Jammin

Posted by: Robert S

As long as you did the upgrade after the machine took 2.5.5 (Feb 2002) you can backup your own machine. Get New Hinsdale from the top post in this Forum and follow his instructions for making a compressed backup. This will backup only what's required to make a new A drive (sometimes called a divorced backup).

Of course, you could buy a new, larger, disk and upgrade to that and leave your original drives alone.

Posted by: jamminj

Thanks for the Info Robert, I was just wondering if it all went pair shaped could I use an image of my new tivo in my old(ish) one.

just one quick question, I'll read the faq on backing up, honest

do I need to back up a and b drive in my 2 disk system or just the a drive?

TIA
Jason

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
As long as you did the upgrade after the machine took 2.5.5 (Feb 2002) you can backup your own machine. Get New Hinsdale from the top post in this Forum and follow his instructions for making a compressed backup. This will backup only what's required to make a new A drive (sometimes called a divorced backup).

Of course, you could buy a new, larger, disk and upgrade to that and leave your original drives alone.

Posted by: captain_video

If you expanded your original setup with a new B drive then you would have to make a combined image of both drives. Hinsdale's How To explains how this is done using MFS Tools 2.0.

Posted by: jamminj

thanks I am just reading it now :)

Linux dont you just love it! grrr!!!

Thanks for the answers.

Jason

Posted by: Robert S

You will only have a problem if the TiVo took 2.5.5 in a twin-drive configuration. Unless the TiVo is new, this scatters the new system anims across both drives and prevents MFS Tools divorcing them. If you get a 40 Hour backup the drive have divorced successfully. If you get an 80 Hour backup you'll need a plan B!

All UK TiVoes are identical, so you can use a backup from any other UK TiVo in yours.

You do need to backup both drives, although a divorced backup only actually copies data off the original partitions on the A drive, MFS Tools needs to validate the full MFS partition set before it starts the backup.

Posted by: jamminj

cheers Robert,

thats all I needed to hear :-)

Moms Tivo will remain untouched for a while so I have a backup there.

I may backup moms and just get an even bigger drive for mine, to be honest I had no trouble at all putting the extra drive in back in July, but the Turbo net is proving to be a pain!!

Thanks for you time mate.

Jason