Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Boston area
Posts: 0

Hi,
about a year ago I replaced my Philips SA 30G HD with newly purchased 30G HD + 80G HD. I've kept my original 30G HD as a back up.

With the tools available now, I'm wondering if it's "safe" to use CD(s) for back up, or if it's still recommended to keep the original 30G HD as a back up.

If I did go this route, is it possible to save all my existing recordings, or will they be lost.

If this has been addressed already I apologise, I didn't see them in the posts I've been reading. Thanks for your help,

Rycardo

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: romeoville,il,us
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You can't preserve recordings during a two-drive backup. The only way to preserve recordings is to copy each drive to another drive but they will not be upgradable without starting from scratch.

It's safe to use CDs for storing back up images. Saving the original drive is a question of money and your desire to always have a working tivo. It kills some people to let a perfectly good drive just sit in the closet but the hard drives are (probably) the most likely failure that will disable yout TiVo. If you have the original hard drive in your closet, you can pop it in and your TiVo will be back up in a matter of minutes. And what's a 30 gig worth nowadays anyway? I think Mc Donalds starting putting them in their kidmeals during the holidays

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