Should I be concerned??

[bmgoodman]

I've done nearly a dozen Tivo upgrades, transferring programs, with never a problem. Until now. I replaced the HD in my aunt's Series 2 (540) Tivo with a 200 GB Seagate. I used the same PTVupgrade v4.01 (w LBA) that I have used before (as recently as December 2005). I did an upgrade to transfer recordings as well:

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

Almost a week has gone by and I checked with my aunt to find out that none of the previous recordings are playable. Their names all appear on Now Playing, but Tivo suggests there was a problem with the cable or that she recorded a channel she does not receive--for ALL of them. She is sure that she had watched parts of a few shows previously.

Shows recorded after the HD replacement appear fine.

She's disappointed, but prepared to lose her old shows. My question is whether I should be concerned about this upgrade. Might there be other problems that will show up later? :(

[funtoupgrade]

The restore process you used does not preserve recordings though they end showing in the now playing list and need to be deleted. If you read through Hindsale you will see an entirely different set of mfstools commands when you want to preserve the recordings, and the process takes hours.

[bmgoodman]

Should have known it went too fast! Always recheck those command line parameters! :D

Thanks!

[Dan Collins]

It wasn't the restore process, it was the backup.

The "-s" parameter shrinks the backup to its minimum size, and the "-f 9999" copies only streams with a fsid below 9999. That will leave behind all of your recordings (although it does copy the NP list, so it LOOKS like the recordings are there). If you want to copy all recordings, you leave off the -s parameter and use the -a parameter.