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Curiously, I tried going to System Settings and attempting to update online from there and it worked first time – no USB stick in sight (in fact I don’t even own one!).
Took about 5-10 minutes in all to download, install and restart. As usual when restarting, it initially said that the box contained no recordings, but they soon reappeared.
grahamlthompson – 12 minutes ago »
wellnevermind – 1 hour ago »
I had to download the update via the site to USB in the end. It did not automtically update the unit from online and I tried running / looking for the update manually twice via the unit and was told no new software detected. But once downloaded to USB it found it with no issues.
And so far, so good with it fixing the issues. I have tried putting the unit through its paces the last 2 days. Hitting live pause randomly, setting it to record when in standby, recording while watching, etc, and everything so far has performed as expected.
The only thing I would mention so far, is that after you turn it off you can still hear what sounds like the hard disk operating for maybe 10 minutes. And no, not when it is recording something! But maybe it has some housekeeping to do after each switch off?
That will happen if a accurate recording is due to start within the next 25 mins or so or if the box is still processing a large number of recording deletions.
Unlike windows Linux FS deletions take longer because the actual recording data is removed. Windows just deletes the file system pointers making it near instantaneous.
Yeah, I can understand that. But it has happened the last 2 nights when turning off at bedtime (midnightish). And there were no recordings scheduled for many hours, in fact about 20 hours (at least 8pm). And next to nothing to process, as it was a clean box / disk until a couple days ago and the odd hour tv show recorded, watched and deleted was done hours before turn off.
The software side of things, GUI, etc, and operation of unit. Does seem slow though.
A1944 – 23 minutes ago »
Curiously, I tried going to System Settings and attempting to update online from there and it worked first time – no USB stick in sight (in fact I don’t even own one!).
Took about 5-10 minutes in all to download, install and restart. As usual when restarting, it initially said that the box contained no recordings, but they soon reappeared.
Was your unit in need of the update? It was already working fine or did you have the same issues as me? Maybe the issue that caused mine to need the update to work properly also caused the auto/online updating not to work?
grahamlthompson – 46 minutes ago »
Unlike windows Linux FS deletions take longer because the actual recording data is removed.
Can you provide any evidence for that claim? I think you will find the data is still on the hard drive and the slowness is due to the inefficiency of the Ext2/Ext3 file system when dealing with large files.
wellnevermind – 30 minutes ago »
The software side of things, GUI, etc, and operation of unit. Does seem slow though.
I am afraid that is true of the FVP models but generally they are usually reliable at recording.
Martin Liddle – 3 minutes ago »
grahamlthompson – 46 minutes ago »
Unlike windows Linux FS deletions take longer because the actual recording data is removed.
Can you provide any evidence for that claim? I think you will find the data is still on the hard drive and the slowness is due to the inefficiency of the Ext2/Ext3 file system when dealing with large files.
The Foxsat can take up to 30 mins or more to shutdown if the power button is pressed when a lot of recordings are set to delete.
During this period the Web Interface remains active.
Otherwise if no recordings due it goes into sby almost immediately.
There is no undelete capability either unless the recordings are temporarily copied to a buffer area.
wellnevermind – 32 minutes ago »
A1944 – 23 minutes ago »
Curiously, I tried going to System Settings and attempting to update online from there and it worked first time – no USB stick in sight (in fact I don’t even own one!).
Took about 5-10 minutes in all to download, install and restart. As usual when restarting, it initially said that the box contained no recordings, but they soon reappeared.
Was your unit in need of the update? It was already working fine or did you have the same issues as me? Maybe the issue that caused mine to need the update to work properly also caused the auto/online updating not to work?
No, mine was not having any obvious issues, but having not done the previous update, when I heard there was another I thought it was time to give it a go. I am, by the way, using a 5000T.
Regarding Linux, it is my understanding files can be recovered just like they can in Windows, minus the bin
Foremost command I think?
wellnevermind – 2 minutes ago »
Regarding Linux, it is my understanding files can be recovered just like they can in Windows, minus the bin
Foremost command I think?
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-remove-files-and-directories-using-linux-command-line/
Quote:Be extra careful when removing files or directories with the rm command, because once the file is deleted it cannot be recovered.
grahamlthompson – 4 minutes ago »
wellnevermind – 2 minutes ago »
Regarding Linux, it is my understanding files can be recovered just like they can in Windows, minus the bin
Foremost command I think?
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-remove-files-and-directories-using-linux-command-line/
Quote:Be extra careful when removing files or directories with the rm command, because once the file is deleted it cannot be recovered.
Note:- We can only restore deleted files in Linux as long as those sectors have not been overwritten on the hard disk.
They say things like be very careful before you delete files on Windows also, and claim you cannot get them back once you do. But it is generally not true, they are just playing it safe.
The fact is, unless you overwrite and overwrite and overwrite files on a disk multiple times (and even then it can be possible to get them back). Or compeltely destroy the disk. It can be possible to recover files.
https://www.computerhope.com/unix/urm.htm
The removal process unlinks a file name in a filesystem from its associated data, and marks that space on the storage device as usable by future writes. In other words, when you remove a file, the data in the file isn’t changed, but it’s no longer associated with a filename.
The data itself is not destroyed, but after being unlinked with rm, it becomes inaccessible.
Note: If you want is to completely wipe the data on the disk, use the shred command instead. shred will overwrite the file’s contents so that they cannot be reconstructed later.
wellnevermind – 9 minutes ago »
https://www.computerhope.com/unix/urm.htm
The removal process unlinks a file name in a filesystem from its associated data, and marks that space on the storage device as usable by future writes. In other words, when you remove a file, the data in the file isn’t changed, but it’s no longer associated with a filename.
The data itself is not destroyed, but after being unlinked with rm, it becomes inaccessible.
Note: If you want is to completely wipe the data on the disk, use the shred command instead. shred will overwrite the file’s contents so that they cannot be reconstructed later.
If it’s merely unlinking the data, why does it take a very long time to process a set of recording deletions set up from the Foxsat-HDR File manager option ?
When you press the power button you get a message saying the box will go to sby when the deletions are processed.
With a lot of recordings I have seen it take up to an hour when cleaning out a 1TB drive.
This link says the data is unrecoverable even when using RM
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10883/where-do-files-go-when-the-rm-command-is-issued
Nowhere, gone, vanished. Well, more specifically, the file gets unlinked. The data is still sitting there on disk, but the link to it is removed. It used to be possible to retrieve the data, but nowadays the metadata is cleared and nothing’s recoverable.
So there is no file recovery at all.
So is post 23 accurate or just plain wrong ?
The custom firmware for the HDR-FOX-T2 does give a undelete option, but it presumably merely moves the files to a seperate area of the hard drive and presumably the undelete moves them back again.
Why these Humax units are slow doing things is a different question in my mind. I don’t believe it is to do with the operating system as such, but more the processing power and speed of parts used in the units.
The very fact that you can get a custom firmware that gives an undelete function is proof that the files are not actually deleted, but only reference to them.
Files are not moved, only reference to them is deleted or changed. Unless you run a disk defrag to move files on purpose.
There is a difference between saying to a normal user data is not recoverable and saying it to say a proper techie.
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, that you destroy the guide image for. The jigsaw is the file and the guide image is the reference that you destroyed using the rm command. True it would be a nightmare to get that jigsaw back together with no guide image, but not impossible. And if parts of the jigsaw are still in logical order, as would be parts of a file on a hard disk. Then it might not be as hard as you think, and if you are using software to automate that recovery, then not very hard at all.
As it happened I cleared out around 1TB of recordings this morning from my HDR-1000S which has a 2TB drive. Unlike the 5000T the UI is pretty responsive. It took ages for the recovered disk space to indicate the recovered recording space. If it is only deleting a few bytes of data why so long ?
grahamlthompson – 45 minutes ago »
If it’s merely unlinking the data, why does it take a very long time to process a set of recording deletions set up from the Foxsat-HDR File manager option ?
The pointers to the actual data locations are held in inodes and the way Humax format the hard drive results in a lot of inodes. Manually formatting the hard drive with much fewer inodes should result in better deletion performance.
. The data is still sitting there on disk, but the link to it is removed.
There are tools to attempt to recover the data but how successful they might be will depend on a number of factors.
So is post 23 accurate or just plain wrong ?
Accurate.
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