Newbi with Linux commands, Question

[schroyb]

While I have over 30 years in with CPM, DOS, Windows etc, I'm an absolute newbi with Linux, so sorry for the stupid questions. I'm trying to upgrade my HR10-250 to a 300GB drive since my 250 is full. I downloaded and burned MFSLive 1.1 . I then reconfigured my spare HP computer by connecting the CD drive to secondary slave, disconnecting the onboard hard drive, and pulling the ribbon cable for the primary IDE and power connectors out to the side of the case. I connected the Tivo's 250gb drive as the primary master, and a brand new unformatted seagate 300gb drive as the primary slave.( had to do it that way due to cable legnths.) I then loaded the MFsLive disk and cranked it up. Startup went well and bios reported both drives accurately . I typed backup -qTAO -/dev/hda | restore -s 150 -xzpi - /dev/hdb and got the message " backup [options] adrive [bdrive]" followed by the list of backup switches.

Any idea what I did wrong, I'm not sure of the Linux command conventions, so I'm not sure which punctuation is typed and which indicates spaces or other things. Any and all help is appreciated.

[Jamie]

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Any idea what I did wrong, I'm not sure of the Linux command conventions, so I'm not sure which punctuation is typed and which indicates spaces or other things. Any and all help is appreciated.May be a more appropriate question for the mfslive forums. In any case, command line options are case sensitive, so -TAO is not the same as -Tao.

[drez]

you are missing a space between - and /dev/hda.
"AO" isn't supposed be to be capitalized either.

try

backup -qTao - /dev/hda | restore -s 150 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

[schroyb]

Sorry about that, I actually did type -qTao as the command, but mistyped it in this post.

[schroyb]

Thanks Drez. that 1 extra space made the difference. I guess I need to go back to typing class:) :)