Hi Folks
Is there an 'eject USB drive' feature on the Foxsat HDR? I used to back up recordings to USB a while ago but have forgotten if this exists or whether it's just a case of shut down the recorder and then remove the drive. I know it exists on the Fox T2 and the 1800/2000 series of recorders.
Cheers
TimK
TimK2011 - 9 mins ago »
Hi Folks
Is there an 'eject USB drive' feature on the Foxsat HDR? I used to back up recordings to USB a while ago but have forgotten if this exists or whether it's just a case of shut down the recorder and then remove the drive. I know it exists on the Fox T2 and the 1800/2000 series of recorders.
Cheers
TimK
No, You can't back up your recordings to USB anyway.
I've not used it to copy recordings myself since I installed the custom firmware but the manual states that a USB device can be used for archiving recordings. See page GB9 & GB11. I think I used USB in the early days for archiving recordings, but as far as I recall there was no option to safely eject a device.
dino - 3 hours ago »
I've not used it to copy recordings myself since I installed the custom firmware but the manual states that a USB device can be used for archiving recordings. See page GB9 & GB11. I think I used USB in the early days for archiving recordings, but as far as I recall there was no option to safely eject a device.
Sorry missed this was a FOXSAT and not a HDR-1000S series thread.
Thanks for the replies.
I've been using FTP on Ubuntu to backup the recordings I want to archive and have switched to Linux Mint as v14.04 is out of support. The version of Filezilla on Mint gives up after 2.2GB for some reason so I returned to using a USB drive for the larger recordings.
TimK2011 - 15 hours ago »
Thanks for the replies.
I've been using FTP on Ubuntu to backup the recordings I want to archive and have switched to Linux Mint as v14.04 is out of support. The version of Filezilla on Mint gives up after 2.2GB for some reason so I returned to using a USB drive for the larger recordings.
What file system is the usb drive formatted with ?
Graham
The USB drive is formatted as FAT32 which allows file sizes up to 4GB, I believe. As yet I have not reached this limit. The 2.2GB problem occurs when using Filezilla in Linux Mint 18/18.1 to copy files by FTP from the Foxsat. I find it strange that it worked fine with Ubuntu 14.04 but not with Mint which is based on Ubuntu 16! It's only on the odd occasion that the file size exceeds 2.2GB so it's not a great inconvenience.
Regards
TimK
TimK2011 - 55 mins ago »
The 2.2GB problem occurs when using Filezilla in Linux Mint 18/18.1 to copy files by FTP from the Foxsat. I find it strange that it worked fine with Ubuntu 14.04 but not with Mint which is based on Ubuntu 16!
I take it you are copying from the Humax to the PC on to a drive formatted with a Linux file system? What version of Filezilla is it?
I'm copying from the Humax to a USB formatted as NTFS attached to the PC although the same problem occurs when copying to the PC's HDD which is formatted as EXT4 by the Linux Mint installation. Filezilla is v3.15 from the software repository.
TimK2011 - 1 hour ago »
I'm copying from the Humax to a USB formatted as NTFS attached to the PC although the same problem occurs when copying to the PC's HDD which is formatted as EXT4 by the Linux Mint installation. Filezilla is v3.15 from the software repository.
On that basis I would have said the problem is at the Humax end. Can any FOXSAT owner confirm? If you install the custom firmware for the FOXSAT there is an alternative FTP server available.
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