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BuddyM
07-29-2009, 12:35 PM
I am trying to copy an 80g from my Tosh HD-400 unit to a new MAX-320g drive with the following command:

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

It takes 48 hrs to do this.........is this OK, comments please.:cool:
Yes, I want the recordings too but how much faster without?

thx
unclemoosh
07-31-2009, 09:32 AM
This should only take minutes, not hours. And this will not copy your recordings. IIRC, to copy the recordings you will need to use the dd command.

Edit: I stand corrected. Learn something new everyday.
HomeUser
07-31-2009, 11:24 AM
The backup | restore command the BuddyM posted will transfer recordings also.

It's been 48hrs did it finish?

FYI: If you are using one of the older MFSTools boot CDs the transfer will go faster if you manually enable DMA for the drives.
bengalfreak
07-31-2009, 01:06 PM
I am trying to copy an 80g from my Tosh HD-400 unit to a new MAX-320g drive with the following command:

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

It takes 48 hrs to do this.........is this OK, comments please.:cool:
Yes, I want the recordings too but how much faster without?

thx


Maybe you should try WinMFS, it was less than an hour to go from a 160GB drive to a 750GB drive including recordings.
BuddyM
07-31-2009, 06:02 PM
Yes it finished in 40 hrs and said I now have 320 hrs. So I put it back in my unit and works fine but still shows only 80hrs. What gives?????

Thx
buddy
JamieP
07-31-2009, 06:57 PM
Yes it finished in 40 hrs and said I now have 320 hrs. So I put it back in my unit and works fine but still shows only 80hrs. What gives?????The Toshiba sd-h400 has a capacity lock in MFS. There's a tool I wrote to unlock it on most modern TiVo upgrade cd's called sd-h400_unlock. If you follow the weaknees instructions here (http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php) and select the sd-h400, it describes how to use it. I'm not sure, but the winmfs "supersize" function may also remove the capacity lock.
BuddyM
08-02-2009, 10:22 AM
Thank you for the info...worked perfectly. Made an Image of the system while I was hooked up too.

:up:
Buddy