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    I have a Philips HDR112 bought in 2002 or 2004 I forget when..

    At that time I made an image of the 14GB "A" Drive
    and then added a 100GB "B" drive.
    (The Tivo had firmware version 1.x or so)

    This past week the "A" Drive died, so I
    took the "B" drive, low level formatted it and
    then restored the "A" drive image on it with the following command:
    1. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
    2. mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
    3. mad/edit_bootparms hdc -i


    All went well, Installed it, hooked up the phone line,
    took the download for Firmware 3.0

    Now I took out the "A" Drive to make an Image of it
    (now that its update to 3.0) and I use the commands:
    1. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
    2. mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/tivo3.bak /dev/hdc


    All went well, but I noticed that it seems that the 100GB HD
    is backing up the same size as the original 14GB backup file size,
    I recall one of the screens mentioning that it was an expanded drive..

    Is there a way to image the New "A" Drive with 3.0, so
    next time I will not have to use the phone line to upgrade
    when I do a restore ?

    Thanks,
    Scott

  • #2
    Right - the backup image file is just the size of the TiVo OS, compressed. The extra space on any drive is added at the time of restore. So the backup can be used again on any drive, 14 GB or larger in this case, but it does have the latest (or current) software.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Great News !!

      I'll test it with another 100GB drive I have sitting around..

      Thanks !

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      • #4
        Sounds good. You should be able to restore it to any drive, 14 GB or larger. If you are using anything larger than 120 GB, be careful about the LBA issues.
        Been here a long time . . .

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