restore to different disk with btextract?

From: Bütow, Michael (michael.buetow_at_comsoft.de)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:00:18 +0100
    To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
    
    

    Hello managers,

    Our hardware platforms running Tru64 5.1B all have two identical disks.
    I've got a script which creates a bootable tape of a certain disk using btcreate.
    This bootable tape can correctly perform a non-interactive restore to the same disk (with custom_disklabel_file, custom_install.sh etc).

    I'd like to restore from tape to a different disk (not the one from which the tape was made), but I have the following problem:

    When booting from the tape, the message displayed are:

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Non-interactive restore file present. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    INTERACTIVE="no"
    TDRIVE="tape0_d1"
    RESTORE_TYPE="yes"
    SPART="b"

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Non-interactive restore file present. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    To disable:

        1) break (Ctrl/C) out of this program
        2) rm /etc/custom_prerestore
        3) /sbin/btextract

    Sleeping for 2 min. and then resuming install...

    I interrupt the procedure at this stage because I wanted to restore to the other disk.

    ^C

    Interrupt... Exiting btextract
    User terminated btextract process.
    Exiting btextract.
    rm: /tmp: Permission denied

    Then I perform the steps 1-3, but in step (3), btextract exits with the following errors:

    mfs: mount: Device busy
     Failed to mount MFS on /tmp.
    rm: /tmp: Permission denied

    Does anybody knows why it fails and have you been able to perform a restore to a different disk successfully?

    Best regards,
    Michael BÜTOW


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