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Step 7: Backing up your Tivo drive(s) with MFS
tools
You should always create and test a backup image before
performing any upgrades, as it is always possible that something
can go wrong during the upgrade and you will need a backup to
restore your image. You will be using MFS Tools to create a small
backup file onto your Windows C: Drive. This backup will contain
your current software version, channel lineup, guide data, season
passes, thumbs and preferences, for easy restore in case of
future problems or upgrades. MFS Tools opens your source Tivo
drive(s) in read only mode, so it should not affect any data you
have on the drive.
Option #1 - Backing up a single Tivo drive
- This is for people that have only 1 factory drive in their
Tivo. Units with 2 factory drives require both drives to be
backed using a different method, (see below)
- Assuming that your usual Windows C: drive is connected as
Primary master with a minimum of 1.5 GB of free space on the
drive. Then take your(or one of your) new large hard drive and
jumper it to slave and connect this to the Primary slave cable in
your PC. (As a rule in the middle of the Primary IDE cable)
Ensure that your original Tivo drive is jumpered to master.
Connect this drive to the Secondary master IDE cable on your
computer (As a rule on the end of the Secondary IDE cable) and
your CD ROM is jumpered to (Secondary) slave (Not neccessary if
using floppy), place your newly burned MFS boot CD or MFS boot
floppy into the drive and power down your PC.
Your new configuration should now be that;
Windows C: Drive - Primary Master
New Large Drive - Primary Slave
Factory Tivo Drive - Secondary Master
CD ROM - Secondary Slave (If applicable)
- Power up your PC with the MFS boot CD in your CD ROM or MFS
Floppy in floppy drive. MFS Boot CD users should hit enter to
initiate the default boot option. After booting to the CD or
Floppy, you will see a series of readouts finally ending with a
Linux # prompt. Make sure that you review the readouts to ensure
that your hard drives are being recognized at their full size.
(You can review the readouts by using shift+page-up if necessary)
If your drives are all connected correctly, then;
hda Primary Master - Should report full size
of Windows C:drive
hdb Primary Slave - Should report the full size
of large upgrade drive
hdc Secondary Master - Should report full size
of Tivo Drive
hdd Secondary Slave - Should report CD ROM (if
applicable)
- If the drive sizes are not being reported correctly, you
either have a locked drive (Reports size as 9-10 MB) or you may
need to turn off your computers BIOS IDE detection. If the drive
is not being reported at all, check the IDE connections and power
connections and reboot to the CD or floppy by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Del and waiting until it reports "no more processes". If
the drive is locked, see the blow "Locked Drive" instructions.
At this point you should type the following commands to mount
your C: drive and make it available:
mkdir /mnt/dos mount /dev/hda /mnt/dos
- To complete, for a single drive TiVo (Any) type:
mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak
/dev/hdc
- The backup process will generally take from 5-25 minutes and
you will get a progress report when finished. (If the screen goes
blank, simply hit the shift key to restore the display) MFS Tools
will report the uncompressed file size, however the file itself
will be compressed and take up a much smaller space on your hard
drive. When complete, you will be left with a small backup file
(tivo.bak) in your C: root directory containing a single drive
image that can be restored to any size drive as long as it is at
least the same size or larger as the original. You are now ready
to restore this image for testing and can proceed to step 8.
- If you are not planning on immediately restoring this image
or are powering down your PC to change drives, ensure that you
unmount your C: drive by typing the following command into your
Linux # prompt;
umount -f -a -r
Then press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait until it reports "no more
processes" and then you can power down.
Option #2 - Backing up a dual drive Tivo
- This option will create a seperate single drive image
containing your season passes,setup etc from your dual drives
that can be used as a backup and to quickly upgrade after
testing. There are also backup commands and procedures that will
allow you to also backup your recordings while upgrading,
although this is very time consuming.
- Assuming that your usual Windows C: drive is connected as
Primary master with a minimum of 1.5 GB of free space on the
drive. Ensure that your original Tivo B drive is jumpered to
slave. Connect this drive to the Primary slave IDE cable on your
computer. (As a rule in the middle of the primary IDE cable)
Ensure that your original Tivo A drive is jumpered to master.
Connect this drive to the Secondary master IDE cable on your
computer (As a rule on the end of the Secondary IDE cable) and
your CD ROM is jumpered to (Secondary) slave (Not necessary if
using floppy), place your newly burned MFS boot CD or MFS boot
floppy into the drive and power down your PC.
Your new configuration should now be that;
Windows C: Drive - Primary Master
Factory Tivo B Drive - Primary Slave
Factory Tivo A Drive - Secondary Master
CD ROM - Secondary Slave (If applicable)
- Power up your PC with the MFS boot CD in your CD ROM or MFS
Floppy in floppy drive. MFS Boot CD users should hit enter to
initiate the default boot option. After booting to the CD or
Floppy, you will see a series of readouts finally ending with a
Linux # prompt. Make sure that you review the readouts to ensure
that your hard drives are being recognized at their full size.
(You can review the readouts by using shift+page-up if necessary)
If your drives are all connected correctly, then;
hda Primary Master - Should report the full size of your
Windows C:drive
hdb Primary Slave - Should report the full size of your Tivo B
Drive (IE:13.6GB)
hdc Secondary Master - Should report the full size of your Tivo A
Drive (IE: 13.6GB)
hdd Secondary Slave - Should report your CD ROM (if
applicable)
- If the drive sizes are not being reported correctly, you
either have a locked drive (Reports size as 9-10 MB) or you may
need to turn off your computers BIOS IDE detection. If the drive
is not being reported at all, check the IDE connections and power
connections and reboot to the CD or floppy by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Del and waiting until it reports "no more processes". If
the drive is locked, see the blow "Locked Drive"
instructions.
- There are two possible commands you can use now, depending on
weather you are using a dual drive TiVo (Most) or a dual drive
TiVo (UK Thompson w/ 2.5.5 or later).
For dual drive TiVo (Any but UK Thompson with 2.5.5 or
later):
mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
/dev/hdb
For dual drive TiVo (UK Thompson with 2.5.5 or later):
mfsbackup –l32 –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak
/dev/hdc /dev/hdb
(That is –l32 with a lower case L, not –132 with a
number one)
- The backup process will generally take from 5-25 minutes and
you will get a progress report when finished. (If the screen goes
blank, simply hit the shift key to restore the display) MFS Tools
will report the uncompressed file size, however the file itself
will be compressed and take up a much smaller space on your hard
drive. When complete, you will be left with a small backup file
(tivo.bak) in your C: root directory containing a single drive
image that can be restored to any size drive as long as it is at
least the same size or larger as the original A drive image.
Assuming that your unit is not a combined dual drive Tivo(See
below), you are now ready to restore this image for testing and
can proceed to step 8.
**Note: For those backing up a factory dual
drive standalone unit, there are a few rare standalone Tivos that
were configured across both drives in an unusual manner. The
combined/blessed dual drive unit is quite rare. While it may
appear to be a seperate dual drive unit, the combined dual drive
unit is actually configured to share 2 drives as one. When using
the MFS backup tools for dual drive, the -s command will have no
effect and the small backup will not be completed. Instead, the
drives will have to be combined into a single drive image. If MFS
tools reports that the original source image and backup image
sizes are equal, and does not provide an "Upgraded to" size, then
you have a combined dual drive unit and you will need to re-run
your backup command, eliminating the -s from the command line.
(–6o instead of –6so) This will combine the drives
together, otherwise the image will not work. Combined dual drive
backups will have to be restored to a drive that is the same size
or larger than the size of the 2 combined drives together. (IE:
13.6GB+13.6GB combined dual drives will need to be restored to a
single drive at least 30GB in size.)
- If you are not planning on immediately restoring this image
or are powering down your PC to change drives, ensure that you
unmount your C: drive by typing the following command into your
Linux # prompt;
umount -f -a -r
Then press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait until it reports "no more
processes" and then you can power down.
Option #3 - Copying complete Tivo drive to new upgrade
drive
- This option is very time consuming and does not create a
small backup file, but rather simply copies your complete factory
Tivo drive image to a new, larger drive. This option can be
useful for single drive standalone Tivos or Directv with Tivo users who
want to replace their original A drive with a new one or a new A
& B drive and who wish to preserve their recordings. Depending on
the size of the original Tivo drives, this can take many hours to
complete to data copy. This method will make a complete duplicate
of your original drive, complete with partitions.
- For those that wish to utilize their original Tivo drive in a
PC or another Tivo instead of storing it for backup purposes, you
will want to use the MFS tools to make a backup image on your
Windows C: Drive. (See backing up a single Tivo drive as above)
Other wise, once complete you can store your original Tivo drive
in case you ever need to want to restore it to factory
specs.
- Disconnect your Windows C: drive completely. Jumper your
original Tivo drive to Master and connect it to the Primary IDE
cable, master position. (As a rule, the end of the Primary IDE
cable) as well as the power connectors. Jumper your new large
upgrade drive to slave and connect it to the primary slave cable
on your PC (As a rule, the middle of the Primary IDE cable).
- Power up your PC with the MFS boot CD in your CD ROM or MFS
Floppy in floppy drive. MFS Boot CD users should hit enter to
initiate the default boot option. After booting to the CD or
Floppy, you will see a series of readouts finally ending with a
Linux # prompt. Make sure that you review the readouts to ensure
that your hard drives are being recognized at their full size.
(You can review the readouts by using shift+page-up if
necessary)
- If the drive sizes are not being reported correctly, you
either have a locked drive (Reports size as 9-10 MB) or you may
need to turn off your computers BIOS IDE detection. If the drive
is not being reported at all, check the IDE connections and power
connections and reboot to the CD or floppy by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Del and waiting until it reports "no more processes". If
the drive is locked, see the blow "Locked Drive"
instructions.
- Ensure you type the following commands exactly, as a typo
could cause you to lose all your recordings and all data, forcing
you to use the back you made earlier. In the Linux # prompt, type
the following command very carefully to perform the DD Drive
copy;
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k
If the above command returns an error, use the following
command instead
dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda
bs=1024k
- This complete copy procedure will take a number of hours to
complete, depending on the size of your original drives, CPU
speed etc. This procedure will not issue a progress report,
however your hard drive activity light should show activity
throughout the entire process. If the screen goes blank, you can
simply hit the shift key to restore the screen. Once complete,
make sure that no errors were reported. The program should report
X number of blocks in and X number of blocks out. These numbers
should be equal.
- Once finished, unmount your drive;
umount -f -a -r
Then power down your PC and jumper your new large upgrade
drive to master and place it in your Tivo to test. If the new
drive is functioning properly and have made and tested your MFS
backup image (If applicable), you can skip to step 10,
configuration #2 to expand and complete your upgrade.
**Note: For those that are copying an image
running Tivo software version 2.0 or below to a non-quantum hard
drive (Does not apply to version 2.0.1 or above), you will need
to follow the TivoMad edit_bootparms program as outlined at the
end of Step 8 before continuing.
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