recovery did not finish

[Thomas Schler_1]

I created a recovery tape (make_recovery -iv) on a C3600, HPUX 11.00, using IUX B.2.5 without problems. I used this tape for installing another C3600.

It seemed to work fine but after creating device files via insf (without error messages) the last message was:
* Running "/opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v" and correcting transition link permissions.

No other message. There seemed no progress during the last night.

A: Why did the recovery process not finish?

I switched off the system. It was possible to boot but with errors (local host settings were not applied, some missing directories, e.g. /var/adm/syslog or /var/spool/mqueue, pcd start script fails every time). I wonder if the system is usable.

B: I have a several weeks old system backup. What is the correct order of recovering filesystems? /stand, /opt, /var, /usr, / ?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

1. Most likely you have a file linked to itself.

Rerun tlinstall manually and remove any self-links reported as warnings.

# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v

2. With regard to the correct order of recovery, load in descending directory order. If you are recovering whole mount points like /opt/, /usr/, etc. then it really doesn't matter. Please be more specific as to what you want to recover and why.

...JRF...