It would be very cool to have a built-in applet that would allow a single drive box to do a complete bit-for-bit backup to an externally connected drive.
It's already running some flavor of Linux, it would just have to invoke the "dd" command with preset parameters for the two SATA ports.
Make it 'hidden' with a 'kickstart' command so that there are a very limited number of non-technical people with access to the utility. Make it unavailable for systems that already have two drives running.
And yes, I know it could potentially turn into a support nightmare, but like the original undocumented S3 OLED "Add an external drive with kickstart" command, it could be totally disavowed and unsupported.
I would love to have a way to painlessly back up an internal drive without having to take the box apart, especially now as drives are getting bigger and bigger.
The only real error checking required would be to make sure it was a single drive system, and that the external backup drive was at least as big as the internal drive.
This would be ridiculously simple for TiVo to implement if the desire to do so was there.
It's already running some flavor of Linux, it would just have to invoke the "dd" command with preset parameters for the two SATA ports.
Make it 'hidden' with a 'kickstart' command so that there are a very limited number of non-technical people with access to the utility. Make it unavailable for systems that already have two drives running.
And yes, I know it could potentially turn into a support nightmare, but like the original undocumented S3 OLED "Add an external drive with kickstart" command, it could be totally disavowed and unsupported.
I would love to have a way to painlessly back up an internal drive without having to take the box apart, especially now as drives are getting bigger and bigger.
The only real error checking required would be to make sure it was a single drive system, and that the external backup drive was at least as big as the internal drive.
This would be ridiculously simple for TiVo to implement if the desire to do so was there.
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