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jigax
02-19-2004, 09:52 PM
Hello, I lost my original HDVR2 Image and found this thread http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29196

I downloaded the image and try to restore it to my tivo hdd which is 40GB.

I type the following command.

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /image location /tivo drive

I get the following error.

Restore Failed: Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself.

Can this problem be caused by the fact that the image is from a 120GB hdd and im restoring to a 40GB hdd.

Can someone please help me im this.
Meklos
02-20-2004, 08:11 AM
Hello, I lost my original HDVR2 Image and found this thread http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29196

I downloaded the image and try to restore it to my tivo hdd which is 40GB.

I type the following command.

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /image location /tivo drive

I get the following error.

Restore Failed: Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself.

Can this problem be caused by the fact that the image is from a 120GB hdd and im restoring to a 40GB hdd.

Can someone please help me im this.



Try without the -s 127. The image is probably from a 40 and the total size is too big if you also expand the swap size.
jigax
02-20-2004, 02:50 PM
Try without the -s 127. The image is probably from a 40 and the total size is too big if you also expand the swap size.

I have removed the -s 127 also try what someone else told me to do replace that with a -s 32 and no luck. :(

Im totally new to tivo.
PlainBill
02-20-2004, 04:10 PM
I have removed the -s 127 also try what someone else told me to do replace that with a -s 32 and no luck. :(

Im totally new to tivo.

What image did you download? Several of the 3.x images will not fit on the 40 GiB Maxtors I have, but they would easily restore to a 60 GiB drive.

PlainBill
tivosohn
06-29-2004, 06:16 PM
Is it possible to restore the image to a bigger drive like a 100GB, then back it up with some flag that will make the image able to restore into a 40GB drive? I thought I have done something like that a while back, but I didn't take note. So, I vaguely remember this process.