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Help, can't restore my backup image.
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Posted by: brj8826

I have searched the forum for someone with a similar issue and can't seem to find the answer to my question.

I am actually downgrading an old standalone unit I have to use the larger 120GB drive in it to fuel my new DirecTivo. My old unit has a 120GB and 45GB that I backed up to an old FAT32 blank HD I had laying around.

The backup went flawlessly and I have tivo.bak sitting in the root directory of that drive. I unmounted all drives at the end of the backup procedure as Hindsdale said to do.

I replaced the 120GB with another 45GB drive so my new config is 45GB+my old 45GB. When I rebooted and attempted to restore the backup image to my 45+45, I got this error

"/mnt/dos/tivo.bak: No such file or directory"

Can anyone help me here?

Thanks.

Posted by: cclaunch

The error says that something is wrong in the mounting of your old FAT drive or the name of the file.

Assuming that your primary master drive is the old FAT one with the backup file.

You have created the temporary directory where the disk will be mounted by executing:
mkdir /mnt/dos

Then you mount the disk with:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

This assumes that the drive is on the primary IDE chain master position, that it was recognized by Linux, and that the first partition in the partition table is your FAT partition that holds the backup image.

Issue this command now:

ls /mnt/dos

You will see a listing of the files on that drive and partition. You should see your backup image. Note very carefully the exact name, remembering that to Linux case does matter, so Tivo.bak is not the same file as tivo.bak

Let me know what you see at this step. If you backup image has a slightly different name than tivo.bak, that gets substituted in the mfsrestore command, becoming /mnt/dos/xxxxx.yyy where xxxx.yyy is the ACTUAL name on your hard disk.