Registered: Oct 2002
Location: UK,Shropshire
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All,

Am trying to restore an image that came from 123Gb Hdd. The new target drive is 120Gb. Commant I'me using is:


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

but it reports that the 'target is not large enough for entire backup itself'.

Is there anything I can do, I want to preserve the recording and season passed etc.

Cheers,

Phil

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123 into 120 just doesn't go I'm afraid!

You can back up the seasonpasses via a tivoweb module, then retore them but I think short of extracting all the streams to your PC (something we can't talk about here), there's little you can do for the recordings.

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Thanks,

I found some threads telling me just so...Typical got the same brand Hdd and same size also from the same source and they turn out to be 3 Gb different !!

Phil

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You may also have exceeded the number of upgrades you can do with one image - I have one of my TiVos stuck at 110Gb on a 120Gb disk.

You could try a lower value with the -s option; it might open you up to problems later in terms of a crash though.

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I decided to use a virgin image....I'll be in big trouble though when the wife gets home and finds she hasn't got her Eastenders anymore !

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You can copy the shows on to your PC's hard disk and then put them back, but I can't tell you how here - go to Deal Database.

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Does this assume tivo web ? because I don't have it. All I can do is connect the drives to my pc.

Phil

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Found the info I wanted, thanks Sanderson

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sanderton you said:-

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You may also have exceeded the number of upgrades you can do with one image - I have one of....

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Every time you upgrade, a pair of partitions is added to fill the empy space on the new disk. There is a limit on how many partitions you can have on a disk (3 pairs I think).

It really only come into play with UK 2 disk systems, as if you go from two to one then the partitions from both disks are copied to the new disk, then a new set is added. If you then try to upgrade that drive, you exceed the limit. I got caught this way going from a 2 disk machine to an 80 Gb + 30Gb, then trying to take it to a 120 was no go as I had no more partitions available, so my 120Gb machine has only 110Gb of usable space!

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