So in review for those that wish to do this
I used PUTTY for the Bash Prompt commands
and Filezilla for the transfers

[ ]1.get the mfs-utils for your box from http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh…ad.php?t=39487
I used for my series 2 (mfs-utils_bin.mips-20050604.tar.bz2 )

[ ]2. Filezilla Transfer it over to /hack dont forget to set it for a binary transfer
[ ]Using putty bash command cd /hack
[ ] tar -jxvf mfs-utils_bin.mips-20050604.tar.bz2
this unpacks the utilities to /hack/mfs-utils
[ ] cd /hack/mfs-utils
[ ] if you wish to back up then back up with the mfs_uberexport command ….example mfs_uberexport 2242 >2242DIRECTV_Green_w_NoBrand.mpv2242
‘fsid’ ‘ name of the output file’
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