remove by mistake * files in /etc

[Maxim Somer]

Hello All!
I recently remove by mistake * files in /etc in AIX 4.1.4. I do not have
backup of system, only backup of users's data.
Could I recover the system or I need make comlete system reinstall?
Help!

[Todd H.]

Maxim Somer <SomerM@sovintel.ru> writes:

> Hello All!
> I recently remove by mistake * files in /etc in AIX 4.1.4. I do not have
> backup of system, only backup of users's data.
> Could I recover the system or I need make comlete system reinstall?
> Help!

AIX provides several installation types. Migration, Preservation are
two I remember...two others are available. My recollection is that
perhaps the preservation install preserved /home and replaced
everything else...maybe that's one that would work for you? I'm not
sure.

If you have another box, you could always tar up the /etc/ contents
there and move it over and modify.

Perhaps others will have other ideas.


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[Hans-Joachim Ehlers]

"Maxim Somer" <SomerM@sovintel.ru> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello All!
> I recently remove by mistake * files in /etc in AIX 4.1.4. I do not have
> backup of system, only backup of users's data.
> Could I recover the system or I need make comlete system reinstall?
> Help!

Since you used only a "rm *" you should feel lucky after all.
Get from someone who owns a 4.1.5 version a tar file containing all files
from the "/etc/" directory - NOT the sub directories - and restore the file.
After that reconfigure "/etc/hosts, /etc/qconfig, etc/exports" and all
other config files in /etc

HTH
Hajo

CATE AIX/RS6000

[Jose Pina Coelho]

Maxim Somer wrote:

> Hello All!
> I recently remove by mistake * files in /etc in AIX 4.1.4. I do not have
> backup of system, only backup of users's data.
> Could I recover the system or I need make comlete system reinstall?

You need a complete re-install.

The reason you can't recover with files from another system is that
both configuration and software inventory data reside in /etc/objrepos.

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