Are you talking about backing up and restoring from the remote, for timers and settings? If so, yes you can. Just press and hold 0 on the remote and back it up, then press and hold 0 on the remote with the new hopper once its up and running and choose Restore.
Dish was unable to get the joey's going. Setup up a ttech visit/ I was able to get them going and cancelled tech visit Saturday. Fixed phone problem today. Broadband, joey's, caller id work. On S238