Question - The source drive showed - backkup success -78 hrs/260mb of 260mb. That ok?

[Tjkreed]

I was about to backup my DirecTV Series 2 Tivo drive and it showed -
Source Drive size is 78 hours.
Uncompressed backup size: 260mb of 260mb.
Backup done!

Does this mean that all my recordings were backup with everything else?
I used the mfsbackup -Tao- command to get to this point.

[wscannell]

You cannot backup your drive and all recordings to a FAT32 disk. The backup file would exceed the 4GB maximum of FAT32. What exact command did you use? The mfsbackup command snippet you quoted is normally used piped to a mfsrestore command to essentially copy a disk with recordings to another disk.

[Tjkreed]

I used the command - mfsbackup –tao- /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc to backup
everything including my recordings.

Should I have used mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc??
And so how would I backup my entire DirecTV Tivo-WD drive?

[wscannell]

You cannot backup a drive with recordings included. The file will be too big.

You can backup the drive including the OS and settings to a file.

You should know that everything in linux is case-sensitive. The lowercase t in your backup did nothing because it is not defined. Uppercase T will copy the whole drive, but you cannot do this to a backup file.

mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc will backup your drive properly to a file. Your backup file will probably be around 500 MB.

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb will copy from your old drive to the new drive and save recordings. Pay attention to capitalization and spacing. They are important. This also assumes that your new drive is installed as primary slave.

You should review these instructions as they are detailed: http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php