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.\" Copyright (C) 2002 - 2004 International Business Machines
.\" Todd Inglett <tinglett@vnet.ibm.com>
.\" Michael Strosaker <strosake@us.ibm.com>
.\"
.TH SNAP 8 "14 November 2003" Linux "Linux on Power Service Tools"
.SH NAME
snap \- generate a configuration snapshot for service
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB/usr/sbin/snap \fR[\fB-ahv\fR] [\fB-d \fIdir\fR] [\fB-o \fIfile\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I snap
script copies several system status and config files and the output of
several commands from the system into snap.tar.gz in the current directory.
System servicers may ask that this be run in order collect data to diagnose
a problem.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-a
All data;  collect detailed information (more files and output).
.TP
\fB\-d \fIdir
Specify the directory where files and ouput will be collected (default:
/tmp/ibmsupt).
.TP
.B \-h
Print a help message.
.TP
\fB\-o \fIfile
Specify the output path and filename (.tar required, .tar.gz optional)
(default: snap.tar.gz).
.TP
.B \-v
verbose output

.SH FILES
These are some of the files that are archived:
.P
/var/log/messages
.br
/var/log/scanoutlog.*
.br
/proc (select files)
.br
/dev/nvram
.br
/etc/yaboot.conf