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    S2: Replacing 2 drives with a single

    Hi everyone,

    I have a Series 2 with a dual drive setup from about 4 years ago, with two 160GB drives. The drives are full, so I'd like to backup the recordings and season passes and restore that to a single 1TB drive (with IDEtoSATA adapter from WeaKness).

    Is this possible to do?

    If I followed the interactive instructions, I'd need 5 IDE ports (1 CDR, 1 winHD, 2 tivo, 1 new tivo). Since the new tivo drive is sata, I could put it on the SATA connector, but wasn't sure how to address it in linux. I could also look into creating the MFStools cd onto USB, which would free up a IDE port.

    Thanks in advance for your help. My wife would kill me if I lost all the recordings, so hopefully you won't say that's my only option...

    thanks

    MJ
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    That generally won't work - you can't go from two expanded drives to one, and keep recordings. You can do it with keeping settings, but not recordings.

    To do it settings-only, use "-so" in place of "-Tao"

    To address the SATA drive, you'd use some variation of:

    /dev/sda

    or

    /dev/sdb
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Hi Michael, thanks for your quick reply

      I was reading the Hinsdale instructions to do a direct transfer (without the backup file) and was wondering why this won't work?

      mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hdc

      with hdc being the new single A drive.

      is there a problem going from 2 drives to 1 that will make this not work? Thanks in advance!

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      • #4
        You can try and see - likely it'll error out. If it does, you can try it again without the "x" but I still think you'll have too many partitions.
        Been here a long time . . .

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