Trying to upgrade HR10-250 with Two 500GB Hard Drives

[CCBarnett]

I have a HR10-250 (HD DirecTV) it now contains the original (250GB) hard drive plus a 120GB hard drive that I added 12 months ago. I now purchased two 500GB Maxtor drives. I now would like to replace the current two hard drives with the two new (500GB) drives, and copy all of the shows.

Can this be done?

I've read the various threads. The best I've been able to do is:
I've created the two 500GB drives. It boots up. Have the correct amount of HD (130) and SD (857) hours (if I remembered correctly), has all the Titles of the shows that were on the two source drives, BUT the CONTENT of the shows were not copied.

Again, can this be done? If so, would someone tell me the required instructions or point me to the answer.
(I've tried Weeknees and PTVupgrade).

Thanks.
Courtney

[weaknees]

Sounds like you did a settings copy (-so) instead of a content copy (-Tao). Could that be it?

[CCBarnett]

I did use the -1so when I used -Tao it failed after copying 1000MB. I have 4 IDE slots available. Is it possible to boot from the CD and do the backup | restore using the four drives?

Would you tell be the instruction that you recommend.

Thanks.

[Klydeman]

I have an HR10-250. In Feb, I upgraded to (2) Seagate 500GB drives. It has a HUGE amount of storage.

I believe this is correct, but you you can not increase your Swap File and save recordings. I could not get mine to boot without increasing the swap file size.

I used Hinsdale Guide http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/

In my case, I could get a 500GB upgrade to work at 127MB swap, but not after adding the 2nd 500GB drive. I ultimately used 512MB swap, (generated during mfsrestore). I also Zippered.

Make sure to make a backup, I used it several times.

Since Hinsdales is a little light on this swap file instructions. These were the commands that I used for backup and restore.

Backs up a 2 drive Tivo to a single image (tivo.bak)
Tivo A drive: Tivo B drive
mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdX

This does a restore of the image and expands to 2 drives in one step (Tivo A then Tivo B drives)
the 512 represents the swap file size. Default is 127

mfsrestore -s 512 -r 4 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdX

You then need to Activate the SWAP partition.

[MeStinkBAD]

In my case, I could get a 500GB upgrade to work at 127MB swap, but not after adding the 2nd 500GB drive. I ultimately used 512MB swap, (generated during mfsrestore). I also Zippered.

What do you mean by Zippered?

Backs up a 2 drive Tivo to a single image (tivo.bak)
Tivo A drive: Tivo B drive
mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdX

I don't think this backs up all the streams to a single image. I think you need -Tao or atleast -ao. Of course I could be wrong. I am hoping someone will read this and clarify things for me.

This does a restore of the image and expands to 2 drives in one step (Tivo A then Tivo B drives)
the 512 represents the swap file size. Default is 127

mfsrestore -s 512 -r 4 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdX

I read that mfstools has a problem when creating swap files over 127 megs in size. I am not sure if it does not create them or does not initialize them. Could someone clarify this as well.

You then need to Activate the SWAP partition.

Using TPIP? How do you do this? This is very much what I need clarified. Exactly how you Activate/Initialize the SWAP partition? How how how?!? Some one explain!