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Copy/backup from one Humax to another

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surefire

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I have a spare HDR Fox T2 which I purchased a while ago with the intention of using it should my original box fail (which I'm sure it will at some time). As I travel away from home regularly I thought I could use the second box to view my saved recordings. So I would like to duplicate everything from my original box to my spare box. I would like to do this using my home wired network. I know it might be slow as I have quite a lot of content but I could leave it running/copying for as long as required. Is this possible? if so some pointers would be appreciated, possibly a step by step if that's not asking too much.

Thanks.
 
So long as you are aware of encryption issues and take appropriate measures (eg decrypt everything first, and/or set the encryption keys to be the same for both units), of course it is possible.

The way I would do it (bearing in mind I haven't) is to make one unit an extension of the other's file system using network-shares-automount or foxlink, then something like rsync (on the command line) to sync the two units' content. Trying to do large transfers using the built-in copy operations is buggy.

As for speed, we're talking 200MB/min. rsync is able to copy only what needs copying, which should speed things up over blind copying.
 
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I have the "auto unprotect" package installed for HD recordings so playing them on another box shouldn't be an issue (I believe). As for network-shares-automount and rsync, they are are a bit of a foreign language to me I'm afraid.
 
surefire said:
I have the "auto unprotect" package installed for HD recordings so playing them on another box shouldn't be an issue (I believe).
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That is a misconception. auto-unprotect only removes the flag which prevents a recording being decrypted, it does not decrypt the recording. That is a separate process, and you cannot play a recording made on one 'fox on another 'fox unless you do something about it. The only naïve way to "do something about it" is to copy everything via USB, using the native menu copy command. Please read up: Decryption Guide, Swapping a HDD between HDR-FOXes, Rescuing Recordings from a Dead HDR-FOX.

surefire said:
As for network-shares-automount and rsync, they are are a bit of a foreign language to me I'm afraid.
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So you are going to have to learn, if you are motivated to achieve what you want. I suppose you could avoid that by using FTP on a PC to copy stuff from one 'fox to the other (and even by point-and-click if your file manager has FTP capability, or use a GUI FTP app), but you will still have to deal with the encryption first. For details of FTP see Black Hole's Trail Guide.

Please note I updated my previous post after you replied to it. I have provided links to all the information you need.
 
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