Not recommending if it makes you uncomfortable, I understand that. But, if you are plugging these into a Macintosh computer these drives show up in the “Finder”. By that I mean like any other drive, they show up on your “desktop”. And you are simply moving files.
But yes, we are in agreement. Tablo should hire somebody to make this easy and intuitive.
Probably not, since I really doubt the USB port on the Tablo can provide enough power for both drives and the hub itself. So you would need to be using powered drives or get a powered hub, which raises the price to $25 or $30.
And none of which addresses the support burden. Which would be considerable.
I was being facetious. Yes a powered hub would be needed hardware wise, but I doubt we’ll ever get the software support for it.
BTW, all of my scheduled recordings as well as my placement in watched recordings transferred.
Need more incentive?
There is a backup 3rd party program. But again, it’s platform specific.
When I connect to my Linux based system, it’s like “everyday” stuff. Yes, some find it easy, others see it as too complext.
I don’t recall if it was drive swapping or “upgrading” TabloTV/Support commented it requires root access and that wouldn’t happen.
All the DB data is stored internally on your tablo device, I don’t think it actually transferred like you think. It may have used the /DB to restore if you did a factory reset.
I don’t need incentive. I’ve done it a couple times, even swapped drives - I understand why taboo doesn’t support it for end-users
Ah!!! I wondered why my settings were there. I understand the programs transferring. I assume that other data might be in another folder? Or, do you actually mean “stored in the device”?
I was only trying to encourage less brave souls!
If you watch the network traffic in a browser ie Web Developer > Network in Firefox you’ll see request via port 8885 (and/or 8887) querying information about it.
http://tabloIP:8885/server/harddrives
http://tabloIP:8885/server/capabilities
for example - this isn’t stored on the drive. (Well, it can be backed up following the instructions Moving your recordings to a new Tablo but it doesn’t seem to periodically create this, which can also be found via backup-tablo.sh)
If yoiu want to get a listing from your drive it’s port 18080 specifying /pvr [http://tabloIP:18080/pvr/]
Note, this is stuff I’ve found in really, really old posts, just trial 'n error and just searching and searching, some is no longer available. So I’m not really showing you any big secret stuff. Just enough for you to decide if you already know more than you need to, or figure more out if you want to dig deeper.
EDIT: you have to substitute “tabloIP” out for the IP address or local name of your tablo on your local network. ie) http://192.168.0.101:XXXX/
Now you are WAY over my head, but thanks
I recently decided to upgrade the 8 TB usb drive on my Tablo Four to a 12 TB drive.
I first tried the Acronis software but it failed to complete. It did however create the required Linux portion on the 12 TB usb drive.
I ended up using Disk Genius in a file-by-file copy mode. It took over 38 hours to transfer about 7 TB of files but appears to have succeeded.
This is FYI. Cheers!
Replying over a year later, because this works. Also not mentioned is that ExtFS also has a Windows version. I did mine using a Mac also, so cannot be certain the Windows version will behave exactly the same.
I had a slightly different issue than most, who seem to be moving onto larger disks. When I first got my Tablo Quad, I went with a store brand 1TB SSD. I don’t keep a huge archive, so any prospect of data loss is minimal concern. After almost 2 years, my Tablo started doing random freezes and apparent restarts. I (correctly) guessed it was that SSD, knowing up front that was less ideal for this use case.
I bought a 1TB WD blue HDD, regular spinning platter style drive. As a geek, I already have a StarTech 2 drive duplicator caddy. Turns out the old drive was a few MB bigger than the new one, so a straight clone operation was not possible. Fortunately the StarTech also can connect the two drives to a computer through a usb cable.
First I installed the new drive in the Tablo and let it power up and format it. Once complete, I shut the Tablo down and put both drives in the StarTech caddy (functionally the same as using 2 usb enclosures). I had installed ExtFS on my MacBook Pro. It comes with a 10 day trial period. Then it was a drag and drop file transfer from old to new. I had roughly 150GB of content that took a couple hours to move. It did throw a transfer error on the last main folder, but I was able to move the contents one by one without further issue and complete the job. Reinstalled the new drive and all the old content was restored and accessible.
To recap:
Thanks RedForeman!
Great Clear instructions.
Good info. I’m doing similar/same stuff via CLI but have not made it work just yet. It “should” work. Retrying from scratch now using ubuntu 20.04 , new drive formatted via the tablo 4-tuner. On my first try I probably didn’t have the directory permissions correct on new drive, among other issues.
There is a file called “.wake” in root dir which contains “A diamond in the rough”. Maybe there are other phrases possible to put in the “.wake” file which can cause Tablo to do interesting things when it boots.
cd /mnt/old
sudo tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/new ; sudo tar xvf -)
Not sure exactly what you you want. There are various topic and post to move to another drive.
Basic options: clone or first let tablo format then copy old drive to new drive, suggest rsync, but cp/copy should be adequate.
Yes all files are owned by user root and should be copied the same. CloneZilla makes it all painless.
Yes, thank you for these clear instructions! I just upgraded my 500Gb Tablo drive to a 1Tb one. Took a minute to find the Windows download link for the software. I can verify that it works great on Windows 10. The Windows download is here. They now call it Linux File Systems for Windows, but still the same company, Paragon.
To be sure I didn’t mess up the original drive, I mounted it read-only. Then mounted the new drive Read-Write and ran the copy.
Once copy was complete, verified both drives had the same sizes, here are the results:
Posting this in case someone else finds it useful. Be sure you get those hidden files which you may not see in Windows by default.
Old drive:
0 .nuvyyo
24 .wake
21406822 db
0 del
0 lost+found
384265183580 rec
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New drive after copy. Same same. Worked great.
0 .nuvyyo
24 .wake
21406822 db
0 del
0 lost+found
384265183580 rec
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