I'm interested in making a 1 CD backup of your tivo!

[Vadim]

My topic says it all, we got to find a way to make it work! I really have this 12 cd back up. Do you? Join the forum and talk about your expirience!! Come on guys!!

[Vadim]

So anyone is here willing to try ZapStream to make a good backup? I think I can host it on this server if it's not too big.

[GITM]

I would be very interested in seeing a single drive DirecTiVo backup posted, and I think a lot of others would be too.

-GhostInTheMachine

[jasch]

Ok, this is my first post. I´ve been a TiVo owner for about two monts. Being outside the US, I´ve had to overcome some situation (intl phone calls, etc). I´ve managed to fix some problems with the Tivonet, but I still need some other solutions (a guide compatible to my channel lineup for example)

The unit I purchased was preowned, so I believe if I am to do a backup currently, I would need a lot of CDs, so I am willing to know what this ZapStream is and if it oculd help me to make a small backup.

Jorge Asch
San Jose, Costa Rica

[Lure]

Virgin back up: 1014MB made with diskpro
phillips hdr212 single disk quantum 22Gb.

just tell me where to up it to and I'll do it...once.

i could break it op into 100x 10Mb chunks if needed

[psxtrader13]

How about freedrive.com or one of those soon to be out of business storage facilities. if you're hesitant about leaving it there, zip up the files and put a password on it. just a suggestion. btw, whoever started this forum f*cking rocks and I hope to see as much effort put forth by the people here as has been put forth by the people in "the other forum". Keep up the good work and don't let big brother influence your actions.

[Lure]

Isn't it an idea to collect the smallest sized back ups (virgin, virgin hacked and also in different versions) and put them on an ftp? I could host some of it or post them on request to an ftp.

could someone point out what back ups fit on with types of tivo's. dit the hardware of the tivo's change over the years or can we restore a 1.3 version onto a tivo that currently runs 2.02? and what about locked drives...wil that be a problem.

someone with expirience please respond.

going to hell is not a problem, being there is a different case.

[Vadim]

Hardware didn't change for all stand alone tivos, even if you have a 60 hour one you still can restore a 14 hour backup and use tivomad utility to make it work as 60 hours. Combo boxes is a different story since there are hughes,sony,philips.
You also have sony stand alone, for those you will probably need a sony image, everything is the same except the remote control commands. Yes you can restore 1.3 on 2.0.1 and it will work just fine.
Locked drives is not a problem just use dlgchk.



Originally posted by Lure
Isn't it an idea to collect the smallest sized back ups (virgin, virgin hacked and also in different versions) and put them on an ftp? I could host some of it or post them on request to an ftp.

could someone point out what back ups fit on with types of tivo's. dit the hardware of the tivo's change over the years or can we restore a 1.3 version onto a tivo that currently runs 2.02? and what about locked drives...wil that be a problem.

someone with expirience please respond.

[aram1s]

I don't understand the big deal with zapstream. The tools all exist to move files into and out of the MFS area. Wouldn't it make more sense to delete all of your video files, then make a backup consisting of the following:

Boot sector (image/compressed)
bootstrap1 (image/compressed)
kernel1 (image/compressed)
bootstrap2 (image/compressed)
kernel2 (image/compressed)
root1 (all files/tarball)
root2 (all files/tarball)
then just grab the individual files from the MFS area via a script, write them to a temporary area (like /var) and tarball them as well.
(For those who do not know tarball means .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 file.)

Then, when it is time to restore, you restore everything up to the root directories and write a temporary rc.sysinit file that brings the system most of the way up, re-initializes the MFS area and loads the data back onto the drive from the /var temporary area.

Now this assumes that /var is big enough to hold the compressed versions of the MFS area, but you could start /var out as 192 mb instead of 128, use it to perform this, then umount /var, fdisk the partition back into a swap and an ext2, and re-initialize them. Then you just rename rc.sysinit make into place and reboot. This then allows you to use your backup to restore onto any size hard drive(s) automatically. You could also make the swap area 128mb instead of 64mb which many have claimed has helped them out. This would give you 256mb to start out with as a temporary storage area, which should almost certainly be enough space to hold compressed versions of everything that needs to go into MFS, especially in OS 1.3

Sorry for the long-winded first post.

Any thoughts on this?
Aram1s

[Lure]

Did you test that , aram1s?
I think a backup like that schould be on the ftp
I made a test ftp. For the moment the only two downloads are winrar2.80 to cut, compress and unpack files files and my own 1 gb big tivo back up from my phillips hdr112 (made with diskpro)

if you upload, go ahead. but let me know infront how much mb the upload is. eventually I'll build a 20 GB in ( now there is only 2,5 GB available)

For downloading mail me at tivolure@hotmail.com and I might grant you an account.

Uploaders that mail first wil get an perminent account.

preview with: the link expired a long time ago, sorry
login xxxx
pass xxxx
ftp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
port xx :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[GITM]

aram1s,

Good idea, do it and make a step-by-step on what you did and release all the scripts needed to do this.

Honestly, that is the best method, but the scripts to initalize and populate a new MFS are hard to come by, and impossible to find for a DirecTiVo. I think it was Sorphin that posted on AVS that he had done this. I can't find the correct thread anymore, but it was not easy and you had to find the correct scripts TiVo accidentaly left on some old 1.3 systems. And again this is useless for DirecTiVo, because there are no scripts to initalize or populate the MFS partition on a DirecTiVo.

Good Luck,
-GhostInTheMachine

[aram1s]

Well, right now I have (i think) about 2 evenings more work to override the ... ummmmm ... to finish what i am currently working on with my tivo :)

Once I am done with that I will take a crack at what I was talking about above. I am not the greatest tcl programmer. i'm more of a perl haker myself, but I am willing to give it a shot.

A

[Lord Magnus]

Originally posted by GITM
aram1s,

Good idea, do it and make a step-by-step on what you did and release all the scripts needed to do this.

Honestly, that is the best method, but the scripts to initalize and populate a new MFS are hard to come by, and impossible to find for a DirecTiVo. I think it was Sorphin that posted on AVS that he had done this. I can't find the correct thread anymore, but it was not easy and you had to find the correct scripts TiVo accidentaly left on some old 1.3 systems. And again this is useless for DirecTiVo, because there are no scripts to initalize or populate the MFS partition on a DirecTiVo.

Good Luck,
-GhostInTheMachine


Let me see if I understand the problem. The method being used is to create an image of the disk and compress it because we don't know how to create the partitions properly. The problem comes in that the erased media files are still using space because the image doesn't know the difference.

Assuming I understand the problem, would it not make sense to just write a utility that zeros out unused space. Thus it would compress completely. A program would just have to write zeros to the disk until it was full and erase the file.

If I am way off base, ignore me.

[aram1s]

not off base, but limited by what you atre looking at. Doing it as you say will back a perfect backup and an easy restore. However, the way I want to do it, means that your restore can go to any size hard drive and can vary the size of the swap partition. Also, by zeroing out the mfs you are not touching the ext2 partitions at all and you are backup up /var which does not need to be backed up at all, it will be recreated on the fly. That is probably costing you hundreds of megabytes.

So, what I propose, while more complex, gives the benefit of a smaller backup and the ability to restore to any size hard drive, or even 2 hard drives.

Also it is not true that we do not know how to do the MFS stuff. There is a thread on AVS that describes it in great detail.

A

[SuperVHS]

d18c7db posted this process to build a TiVo disk from scratch here:

http://pvrhack.sonnik.com/tivo/d18c7db/

I have found all the scripts that he used but he extracted fonts, sounds, and images from mfs partition 10 and videos from mfs partion 11 (he also modified the videos). He has a list of all the files he used in the process. 400M of source files.

Sooooooo, the question is How to get the required source files from the mfs partitions?


Also, ZapStream allows you to zero out your video recording to make the backup files smaller. I have one under 1Gig but not yet got it below 650M. Someone on AVS did.
http://pvrhack.sonnik.com/tivo/download.asp

Enjoy

[jangell]

The second drive in my TiVo just died last night. I actually made a backup (only 1.2 gigs), but of course that drive died a few weeks earlier, and I hadn't burned it to disc yet.

Does anyone have a virgin Sony TiVo A drive backup they could make available for download?

Thanks!

-- Joe

[Lure]

Anyone that plans on helping jangell:
this is spamming: here the ftp again[/]

up to ftp://xxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [i]Expired long time ago, sorry
please make a little tekst file that contains all inf on the drive and restore procedure.

:D :D :D

[GITM]

Aram1s,
Check out what JPags did at AVS (http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum6/HTML/006080.html) .
That seems to be exactly what you want to do...
The original HOW-TO on how to do this with a SA is here (http://pvrhack.sonnik.com/tivo/d18c7db/TiVo-Restore.htm).

Lets see if we can get this to work...
First off, does anyone have fsmake on their TiVo?
-GhostInTheMachine

[aram1s]

OK - I have the basic stuff (except MFS) done now. I have bzipped and image partitions and boot sector and tar/bz'd the root partitions. /var should not need to be kept at all as it will be recreated at boot time as needed. Here is how it compresses:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 368 May 11 06:27 01 - bootsector.img.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 48 May 11 06:27 02 - bootstrap 1.img.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 299823 May 11 06:27 03 - kernel 1.img.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3078195 Jul 7 22:17 04-root.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 48 May 11 06:28 05 - bootstrap 2.img.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 299667 May 11 06:28 06 - kernel 2.img.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3297289 Jul 7 22:18 07-root2.tar.bz2
Total space used so far: 6,975,488

That leaves me with 647 meg available for the data from MFS. Looks good so far. Now I just have to do the hard part!

A

[Lure]

Ah, since we started this thread I have been waiting for somebody to offer a backup of a v1.3. Anyone that got one? I'd really like to down that and put it on my ftp. uptill now I only have this 2.02 virgin backup...
come on guys lets get this ftp of the ground. i'm sure some dead tivo's can be brought to live this was and also some of us can hack the damn thing easier-)



:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[RichTJ99]

I cant download.

I have a philips 30 hour & a philips 14 hour

Can I use that image for my Tivo (not direct satilite thingy)

There is no permission for it on the server.

[Vadim]

Hmm, My backup is too big however, I have 30 hour 1.3 backup which is 2 and a half cd.
I'll up it tonight, then you can shrink it..

[snedecor]

Any Sony Backups available?

I was scared to open up my Sony 30 hour because it was an open box buy ($129). I'd really like to have a small backup and not have to waste a 30 gig drive on a backup.

Anybody done that?

Snedecor

[GuyIncognito]

Originally posted by Lure
Ah, since we started this thread I have been waiting for somebody to offer a backup of a v1.3. Anyone that got one? I'd really like to down that and put it on my ftp. uptill now I only have this 2.02 virgin backup...
come on guys lets get this ftp of the ground. i'm sure some dead tivo's can be brought to live this was and also some of us can hack the damn thing easier-)



:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I've got a pristine 1.3 Sony SA complete with /devbin and all the diag tools. What's it worth? :)

[Vadim]

Sorry can't upload, can't make dir or even download winrar... hmm weird..

Originally posted by Lure
Anyone that plans on helping jangell:
[i]this is spamming: here the ftp again[/]

up to ftp://tivo:tivo@213.10.105.132
please make a little tekst file that contains all inf on the drive and restore procedure.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Lure]

Sorry, Someone seems to be funny, the directory UPLOAD was deleted!!!!!

It's back again, so please upload those beauty full backups of yours. . Don't forget to add a little tekst file with how to restore and who takes credit for this upload.

use ftp://tivo:tivo@213.10.105.132/upload to upload

If you need to download: ask tivolure@hotmail.com for a temporary account.

note that the the max upload speed wil be 120Kb, downloading will be a lot slower at the moment but I'm working on that.


thx for all reactions.
:D :D :D :D :D :D Legaly and moraly you're only granted to download your own backups.......

[Lure]

In the text file of the backup from the hdr112...I made a mistake. Do not use diskpro: read the 2.15 and 2.17 sections of tivo.samba.org
http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=all#2.15
http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=all#2.17

sorry (to the downloaders)

btw, the downloading is getting out of hand and the uploading stays behind-)
Anyone that could supply a fast ftp...please mail tivolure@hotmail.com

[ircbob]

how many backups have we accumulated? and how big are they approxmiately?

[Tictoc]

CMIIW,

doesn't tivo store it's serial number in two places, one of them in hard drive? If that's the case, tivo or other can check who's sharing tivo backup. Best thing is to find out where they store serial number and remove it before sharing tivo backup with others.

[Lure]

ircbob look at your private messages.

serialnumbers? as far as I know there are hidden in an eprom. correct me if I'm wrong.

btw you bought a tivo, have rights to make a backup. It does't matter who it made. Tivo upgrades if they like...can't we downgrade or restore if we want. look at the threads about the mistakes that where made in the last upgrade. They admitted those, are gonna correct this but not before september 2001.

You wanna wait for that?

[Tictoc]

Hi Lure,
don't get me wrong. I am all for small CD backup. Just being cautious.

After reading jeddy post on the other forum (http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum6/HTML/005226.html), it appears that the s/n is stored in HD EEPROM and not the software itself. My mistake.

[stryder]

Does anyone know how to extract the Resources from the mfs partition easily? I want to attempt to create a tivo install that is as close to identical to the Tivo factory install as possible. That should enable me to create the smallest backup possible. I have all the scripts and stuff necessary now, I just don't have the data files. Any tips?

[Lure]

stryder:
I want to attempt to create a tivo install that is as close to identical to the Tivo factory install as possible. That should enable me to create the smallest backup possible.

Virgin backup from a hdr112 an idea? its on the ftp.

Tictoc:
don't get me wrong. I am all for small CD backup. Just being cautious
sorry, if I look irritated, remember this is all typed words , no sound, I'm really a nice guy-)

don't quote me, I quote you!
:D :D :D :D :D :D

[stryder]

Yeah I know about the virgin backup. :)
I want to do better than that though. Over a gig is still too big, and I would like to do it the way they do it at the factory. Especially since it will be fun to figure out.

[Vadim]

Lure,

My dsl was acting slow, so I stoped the upload. However when I tried to resume it told me I don't have permission to do so. Please fix and I'll finish the upload.

[ircbob]

ya, from what ive read, the serial is stored on a chip.. yes there is a serial thats stored on the harddrive, but i think that is ignored (either that or i would imagine that serial # is refreshed on each boot from the chip)...

1gb is prob the best anyone can do w/o any real 'tweaking' of the mfs... somebody on avs was boasting a ~300mb backup...

you can browse thru whats on the mfs if u have the tivoweb interface installed, it has a mfs partition thingie which lists what is at what node...


here's a paste of mine:
AreaCode tyDir 18614 04/22/01 17:30 28
Component tyDir 212 08/23/99 16:22 40
DataSet tyDir 1986 04/24/01 18:03 116
Database tyDir 1615 07/10/01 13:35 84
Genre tyDir 76 06/16/01 23:32 1744
GuideIndex tyDir 402027 07/10/01 13:32 324
GuideIndex.temp tyDir 398718 07/10/01 13:32 4
Headend tyDir 2058 02/09/01 16:11 20
HeadendPostalCode tyDir 2059 02/09/01 16:11 524
HeadendTms tyDir 2060 02/09/01 16:11 20
LogoGroup tyDir 398677 04/24/01 02:34 52
MessageItem tyDir 18583 08/13/00 14:05 48
ObjectType tyDir 3 04/23/01 18:43 1872
Package tyDir 2095 07/08/01 13:36 6396
Person tyDir 18622 05/02/01 02:31 32
PostalCode tyDir 2062 08/12/00 20:26 16
Preference tyDir 18467 08/12/00 22:08 12
...
it goes on for a bit

[Tictoc]

Lure,
No problem :D :D :D


stryder,
in Extractsteam mailing list, someone made a modification of httpd.tcl so that it can display the images in /mfs/Resource/Image via web browser. I am sure it can be modified to retrieve other objects in mfs partition as well.


this is the link. (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtractStream/message/55) You have to register to extractstream mailing list to be able to view it.

I hope it helps.

[stryder]

Hey thanks for the info on extractstream. Looks like I have a new mailing list to read :)

Good reference material if nothing else.

[stryder]

What kind of special things to I need to do to my tivo in order to get it to take a virgin backup? For some reason I can't seem to get it to go past the "Almost there. A few more seconds please ..." screen. Do I just need to wait?
It worked before it seems like. Do I need to change the root partition or something?

[Lure]

How much time did the restore of the back up take? Backing up took ages ( 5 hours or something like that)

what is your disk size? the backup wat made from a quantum which has ( i believe ) 22Gb. I'm not sure if you could restore to a smaller drive.

did you unlock your drive( if it was locked in the first place-))

did you read 2.15 and 2.17 at http://tivo.samba.org/ (http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=all )


The back up was NOT made with diskpro. The text file that came with the download was wrong and is altered.
:D :D :D :D :D :D

[ircbob]

and you're running 2.01, your backup was probably incomplete due to a locked drive.

how many records did you have from your dd command? and like Lure asked, how many hours is your tivo?

i just did a 20 hour backup last nite on a friends' machine, took about 3 hours on a p3 650

[aram1s]

Quick note here guys - When doing a backup of a tivo drive after doing the extractstream thing, DO NOT boot with DBD. The byte-swapping takes so much overhead that it is almost sad. Use a normal kernel and tar/bz2 the entire drive as-is.

A

[ircbob]

i wasnt sure if i had to use byte swapping or not...


what does tivo use byteswapping for?

oh, this is a weird q.. maybe uguys can answer it...

so, if i make a backup of a 20 hr tivo to an 80gb drive.. then zapstream the 80gb (not running tivomad yet),

if i do a backup of this 20-hour-on-80gb-drive-zap-streamed tivo, and i restore it, will i have to restore to an 80gb drive ?

(bascially, does dd take into account the size of the hd? or just whats been defined, partition wise?)

[stryder]

Ok well that is the problem I suppose. I was trying to put the virgin image onto a 14 hour drive. Most of it fits however, I guess part of the MFS partition is just off in no man's land. It was wierd because dd said it copied the same number in and the same number out. I put my 8.9 gig backup back onto the tivo. I will see about zapstreaming it later on, unless I can extract all the resource files from the tivo that I need. Should make for an interesting experiment. Gotta get that TivoNet working now.
Waiting for my 100 Gb Maxtor to arrive as well.

I agree about not using byteswapping. On my 9 gig backup I used the noswap kernel on the Tivo Boot CD that I found a link to on the other forum. It is quite quick to backup and restore in that fashion.

[aram1s]

the reason the tivo uses byte swapping is that the powerpc and the intel processors have their data busses wired backwards from each other. So what we see as being backward on an intel platform is normal on the PPC platform and visa-versa.

As for backing up to a bigger drive, that's what tivomad's utility does. Try using that.

A

[Lure]

Hi all,

There are more requests for downloading backups than I can handle. I'm Now trying to use the offers of hd/ftp storage from others. Please keep offering storage with reasonable bandwidth!

question for the guru's that are busy making smaller backups: SPEED UP-)) The smallest I have is 1114Mb... any smaller backups(ripped or not) are more than welcome: they will speed up the process of serving others with a back up.

sofar:
~ thanks for being patience to the ones that are waiting to get a back up. (lines of 4 width and no pushing,please)
~ thanks to the people that are offering starage.

Tivolure

[Lure]

our collection of backups needs to be extended..... read what we are looking for!

- Any sony back up ( we have zip... so we can't help anyone with sony problems)

- phillips all versions that are below 700MB (we have a 530mb 1.21. anyone gonna beat that?)

back ups of virgin hacked machines: (size no objection..)
- tivo's with smal size dual disk back up
- tivo's hacked with tivonet suport
- tivo's with PAL hack
- tivo's with channel for live cam feed.

ofcourse: the smaller the back the better. but please even if you think your backup is too big: prv msg me


uploaders get permanent access to our ftp back up database.

[aram1s]

If you have been following the goings-on on the avs forum, it looks like we will have 130 meg backups of all of the combinations shortly. You might want to hold off for now until bicster finishes zaptivo.

A

[Lure]

I'm not short on backup space at the moment,sure I waana have smal backups. But befor they are available...I'll just continue.

thanks for the tip!

:D :D :D :D :D
My guru was a big rock in the desert. so, what did I learn ? ...not to ask questions.

[cardman]

hey can someone please send me a tvio backup .

i need a tivo backup badly....
ive been searching for over a week now....

my tivo crashed from playing around to much
and i tried to restore but my backup cd
has un readable sectors.

im using a 20hr phillips.

please can i get a virgin image from you.
or if you know someone that has one.

if you find it can you please send it to me .

my ftp is

216.237.212.88

port 21

login : tivo
pass : tivo

this is a perm ftp i host that beenup for about 2 years .

[Lure]

upping:D

[cardman]

thanks for the upload .....

maybe ill be able to watch tivo again soon.



your upload disconnected on the 2 files


r00

and

rar

so i only got half of them .

other than that it looks like its all there.
can you please finish ....


thanks man you a real life saver.

[aram1s]

I just completed a backup of my unit. it is 1.3 and I think 1.21 as well. It has all of the hacking and networking utils on both root partitions. There is a fresh swap partition and a blank var partition. The tivobackup.tar.bz2 file is 263.79 MB.

Anyone beat that yet on a 1.x machine? :)

A

[SuperVHS]

aram1s:

I would test your back up on a blank disk (dd /dev/zero /dev/hdx).

For 1.3 the software, the system videos and source files are nearly 400 meg and the videos do not compress much at all. 128 system menu videos exist.

I created a backup that was 350M, which involved a blank var partition, a blanked and recreated the swap partition, and zero'ed out the unused space in both root partitions.

Please let us know..........

[Lure]

What methode of backing up did you use? tiger/bicster/classic?

[SuperVHS]

I used ZapStream to kill all the non system files. I used zaptivo to kill the unused media space. I manually zero'ed out the var and swap partitions, then re-made the swap partition, and zero'ed out the unused portions of root1 & root2. I could have deleted the unused bootstrap, kernal, and root partition but they only added about 6 meg. I did a normal dd to backup and restore.

Tiger and Bicster can create faster backups and restores by only backing up the needed data but cannot compress the data any further. 2.0 s/w changed the way the system menus are and eliminated most of the system menu videos. That is why you can get a much smaller backup if you have 2.0 s/w. So, 350-400M for 1.3 s/w and 100-150M for 2.0 s/w are the smallest backups you are likely to get (barring new compression technology).

[aram1s]

I will try it this weekend. I can use the original HD. I have image backups (uncompressed) of the drives before I started messing with it on my server and backed up to DLT anyway, so it is no big deal if I mess up. However, since this machine was originally a 1.2 machine then upgraded to 1.3, am I to believe that they sent over 100 meg over the phone lines? I would find that hard to believe.

A

[SuperVHS]

The system menu videos in 1.3 s/w were also there in 1.2 s/w.

I meant 2.0 can have 100-150M backups (and edited my last posting to correct this).

[aram1s]

Well, I took the plunge. I zeroed out the hard drive last night and started the restore running this morning before I left for work. Hopefully I will have a positive answer for you by tomorrow.

BTW: zaptivo reported that it cleaned about 11 gig and left 410 meg.

A

[jasch]

Using ZapTivo I was able to create a 136MB 2.x backup of my Sony SVR-2000... I was able to use my stored-HD for something else after that <grin>.

-
Jorge

[aram1s]

Yup. My backup was bad. I restored my full-sized backup and ran everything again and came out with 384M (1.3/1.21) without bothering to zero out any of the stuff. I'll probably mount it up byte-swapped again and clear everything out then try bzipping it again. FOr now this is fine though. As long as it fits on a single CDR I am happy.

I guess the next thing to do is to try to replace some of the animations (like the startup animation) with MUCH smaller ones and see what happens. I am really happy to have a single CD backup now though.

The only thing that would make me happier would be a version of zaptivo that works without the byte swapping. From what I can see it would not be all that hard. Just replace the ioctl in open_mfs with one that does raw reads and parses them (there is a perl script on AVSForum that shows how) then if the drive signature is backwards, flip all the things you are looking for (MAGIC_SIGNATURE, etc) and writing and that should take care of it.

A

[Lure]

jasch


Using ZapTivo I was able to create a 136MB 2.x backup of my Sony SVR-2000... I was able to use my stored-HD for something else after that <grin>.

seeing all requests for sony backups I have in the mailbox, I think it is time for you to upload your back up. Look at the back up thread in this forum or pm me.

the smallest backup I have on the ftp is 360mb...come on: lots of you can beat that. pm me to upload all those different versions and types. We like virgins as wel as hacked oldies..

[1dave1]

I must just have too may help file printed out I am looking for the commands to make a back up and restore one Anyone got them handy?
:D

[Lure]

You didn't search this forum very well, did you? since I feel generous to day ( didn't post for a while) I'll post the obvious:
first threads in the directTV TiVo Hacking: sticky howto's (http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5827)

well I like this one: hindsdale (http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/)

good luck and upload your fresh back up to here (ftp://ftp.abs.net) ( let others benifit)

:D :D :D

[keith721]

okay - got my hard drives from compuplus, got my tivonet and hdd bracket from 9thtee, my sonic blue rio mp3 player (hey, waitaminit - wrong forum;) )

seriously, i've started uploading a virgin/factory backup of my Sony SVR-2000 30 hour single drive unit to the incoming directory. it's software version 2.5.1, and about 90 megabytes.

hope this helps some of you . . .

keith721

[tokapeba]