how to unlock Tivo harddrive for backup?

[dep]

I want to back up my Tivo drive before adding some utilities to it, but when i try to back it up, i get a message that the drive may be locked.

How does one overcome such an obstacle in this command-line environment?

Thanks for any help.
dep

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