failing restore

[REECYCUP]

when i try to do a copy of a 40 gig to a 200 gig
i get
backing up 260 megabytes :then
restoring 260 megabytes
restore failed

hughes sddvr40

mfsbackup -tao - /dev/hdd(original tivo) | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda(new drive)

tried this with 2 other drives
i can copy backups fine but no recordings

[funtoupgrade]

Try omitting the -r 4 which is only for drives of 400GB or larger.

[REECYCUP]

same thing it acts as if the 40 gig is only 260 meg
thanks anyway


tried on another computer and hard drives same also

[wscannell]

Try using an upper case T :

mfsbackup -Tao - ......

[REECYCUP]

that did it thanks.

the only uppercase letter in the whole line!

i feel like a dork :p

thanks all

[QED]

that did it thanks.

the only uppercase letter in the whole line!

i feel like a dork :p

thanks all


I just spent nearly 4 hours typing a lowercase 'tao' command wondering why the restore command failed until I finally read this thread. My Hughes SD-DVR40 drive is now in the process of copying/restoring itself to a big fat 400GB Seagate. This time it's going nice and slow counting up the percentage restored. When it failed it went all too quickly (ie, a minute..maybe).

FWIW, the exact fail message was " RESTORE FAILED: ERROR FIXING VOLUME LIST " (in case anyone else has this problem they should have an easier time finding this thread)

After the restore I have to use the 'tpip' trick to initialize the 200mb swap file...I hope that goes well.

[QED]

Success! the capital -Tao (vs. -tao) command did the trick. My Hughes Series 2 DirecTV Tivo SD-DVR40 is now reporting 354 hours capacity on a 400GB Seagate drive.

What also may be of interest to some is the PTVupgrade CD included tpip v1.2 (tpip --version command verified). So I successfully activated my 200mb swap file with the tpip commands for version 1.2.

[bnm81002]

I'm having trouble trying to restore to a 400gb drive as well, I get the same "restore failed" error, I've tried the following commands, I have tried this command w/o saving any recordings (mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdd)
and I tried using this command with saving the recordings even though I have none to save (mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdd)
I followed the instructions according to the weaknees guide, any help please?
could the drive be bad? it is a brand new drive from outpost? thanks


PS-it goes to 127 then restore fails