restore to different disk with btextract?

[Michael BUTOW]

Hello,

Our hardware platforms (DS10/DS15) running Tru64 5.1B all have two identical disks (dsk0, dsk1).

I've made 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 the alternate disk, 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 btextract at this stage to attempt an advanced restore to the other disk:

^C

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

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

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

I would be grateful for any pointers on what could be going wrong here.

Best regards,
Michael

[roopali]

hi,

This is a day one problem.This type of problem was never seen earlier. We are working on this problem internally.

Regards
Roopali

[Cleymans Edwin]

As soon as I found out, I just tried a direct btcreate on all file systems of dsk1. To be on the safe side, I booted the system in single user mode and mounted all file systems.
Then I made sure, that with the disklabel utility, I copied the partition layout from dsk1 to dsk0.
Then, just like in the example above, I interrupted the automatic restore with cntl-C and followed instructions. Unfortunately, the same error message occured. I am sure that this procedure worked correctly with earlier versions of the software. It seems to indicate that the error comes from the basic Tru64 tools btcreate/btextract, and has nothing to do with eventual shortcomings of the script (make_btape.sh).
Kind Regards,
Edwin
P.S. : A restore to the 'original' disk still works.