I followed the below path as suggested by Cisco TAC
The Upgrade path is: 5.0(3)N2(1) --> 5.2(1)N1(9b) --> 7.0(8)N1(1) --> 7.1(5)N1(1) --> 7.3(3)N1(1)
I ran into a hurdle upgrading from 7.0.8 to 7.1.5, not a resume generating event but I did lose the ...