AOESNAP(1) AOESNAP(1)
NAME
aoesnap - snapshot a machine's state via AoE
SYNOPSIS
aoesnap [ -o outputfile ] shelf
DESCRIPTION
Aoesnap uses AoE to download a snapshot of a machine's
state. Snapshots are like Unix core dumps, but allow easy
debugging on foreign architectures. The target maybe be
anywhere on the local Ethernet segment, but it must under-
stand how to serve AoE snapshots. Currently, only the
Coraid VS knows how to serve AoE snapshots.
Suppose a snapshot is to be taken of VS shelf 199. First the
VS needs to be configured to serve snapshots and put into
snapshot mode
VS-1:199> myshelf 199
VS199:199> ^Z
hit almost any key to reboot:
The snapshot can then be taken running as eve.
% aoesnap | bzip2>snap.bz2
SEE ALSO
aoe(3), cec(8), vblade(8),
http://www.coraid.com/documents/AoEr11.txt
BUGS
Must be run as root.
Uncompressed snapshots are large.