Imageing tivo hard disk

[gregs]

Just wondering if anyone knows is it possible to take an image of my tivos hard disk with Symantec ghost (or equivalent software) and use it to migrate to a larger new disk? or as a backup so I don’t have to go through the setup again?

Thanks

Greg

[thomson]

You are better off doing this with the mfstools (mfsbackup and mfsrestore) found on the OzTivo boot CD, or on other MFS boot CD's. This will allow you to backup (and compress) your existing drive, which you can then restore on to a larger drive. Depending on your options you can also backup and restore the contents of the MFS database (ie your recordings) although this will make for a much larger backup image.

The backup process is something like (assumes that the TiVo harddrive is attached as hdc, and that you wish to back it up to a file on the first partition of hda):
1. Boot from the CD and exit to a shell
2. mkdir /mnt/dos
3. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
4. mfsbackup -l 32 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

[petestrash]

What thomson has said is the best way of moving to a new drive. And from memory Norton Ghost will not work with TiVo Drives.

Peter

[gregs]

Thanks very much