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Hi,
First some background and an apology for the long post....I was doing some diagnostics between two failing tivo units with multiple hard drives, and have encountered an issue trying to restore an image. Here is what I did. Took backups of images from an DTV R10 and a Hughes SDDVR80. See my sequence of commands below:
Backup of images:
attached R10 80 GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsbackup -f 9999-1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdb
backup reported successful
shut down
detach R10 drive
attached DVR80 80 GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/hddvr80.bak /dev/hdb
backup reported successful
shut down
Restore to test SDDVR80:
detach DVR80 Drive
attach 160GB Drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/hddvr80.bak /dev/hdb
Restore successful with expansion reported
shut down, disconnect and insert drive into SDDVR80 Tivo
Tested drive in SDDVR80 ...same problems as before--it's a tuner issue with that unit--get to live TV but always searching for signal or showing pixilization that replays exactly on rewind. So, confirmed not the hard drive in this one.
Restore to test R10
Attached 80GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdb
restore successful
shut down disconnect and insert drive into R10 Tivo
Boot Tivo and get continuous Powering Up
Repeated the R10 test with ANOTHER 80GB drive and get repeating Powering UP, so this unit has either a power supply or a motherboard issue.
So after confirming all of this, I wanted to get the 160 drive out of the SDDVR80, and return the original 80GB drive there. When I tried to restore the SDDVR image to that 80 GB drive using the same sequence of events described above, I cannot. I get a message "Restore Failed: Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself" This is the same backup image that restored successfully to the 160GB destination drive, but now will not work when restoring to the 80GB drive that I used to create this backup file!
I can, restore the R10 image to both of my 80 GB drives. The SDDVR image fails with both 80 GB drives even though it was created from one of those 80 GB drives.
I'm at a loss. Please help.
Thanks,
Keith
First some background and an apology for the long post....I was doing some diagnostics between two failing tivo units with multiple hard drives, and have encountered an issue trying to restore an image. Here is what I did. Took backups of images from an DTV R10 and a Hughes SDDVR80. See my sequence of commands below:
Backup of images:
attached R10 80 GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsbackup -f 9999-1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdb
backup reported successful
shut down
detach R10 drive
attached DVR80 80 GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/hddvr80.bak /dev/hdb
backup reported successful
shut down
Restore to test SDDVR80:
detach DVR80 Drive
attach 160GB Drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/hddvr80.bak /dev/hdb
Restore successful with expansion reported
shut down, disconnect and insert drive into SDDVR80 Tivo
Tested drive in SDDVR80 ...same problems as before--it's a tuner issue with that unit--get to live TV but always searching for signal or showing pixilization that replays exactly on rewind. So, confirmed not the hard drive in this one.
Restore to test R10
Attached 80GB drive to primary slave
boot to weakness CD
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdb
restore successful
shut down disconnect and insert drive into R10 Tivo
Boot Tivo and get continuous Powering Up
Repeated the R10 test with ANOTHER 80GB drive and get repeating Powering UP, so this unit has either a power supply or a motherboard issue.
So after confirming all of this, I wanted to get the 160 drive out of the SDDVR80, and return the original 80GB drive there. When I tried to restore the SDDVR image to that 80 GB drive using the same sequence of events described above, I cannot. I get a message "Restore Failed: Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself" This is the same backup image that restored successfully to the 160GB destination drive, but now will not work when restoring to the 80GB drive that I used to create this backup file!
I can, restore the R10 image to both of my 80 GB drives. The SDDVR image fails with both 80 GB drives even though it was created from one of those 80 GB drives.
I'm at a loss. Please help.
Thanks,
Keith
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