add second copy of man page to make aoesnap self-contained on unix systems Reference: /n/atom/patch/applied2013/aoesnap.man8 Date: Tue Jun 18 23:03:10 CES 2013 Signed-off-by: quanstro@quanstro.net --- /sys/src/cmd/aoesnap/aoesnap.man8 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +++ /sys/src/cmd/aoesnap/aoesnap.man8 Tue Jun 18 23:02:52 2013 @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.TH aoesnap 8 +.SH NAME +aoesnap \- snapshot a machine's state via AoE +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B aoesnap +[ +.B -o +.I outputfile +] +.I shelf +.SH 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 understand how to serve AoE snapshots. +Currently, only the Coraid VS knows how to serve +AoE snapshots. +.PP +Suppose a snapshot is to be taken of VS shelf +.IR 199 . +First the VS needs to be configured to +serve snapshots and put into snapshot mode +.IP +.EX +VS-1:199> myshelf 199 +VS199:199> ^Z +hit almost any key to reboot: +.EE +.LP +The snapshot can then be taken running as root +.IP +.EX +linux# aoesnap | bzip2>snap.bz2 +.EE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR cec (8), +.IR vblade (8), +.br +.BR http://www.coraid.com/documents/AoEr10.txt +.SH BUGS +Must be run as root. +.PP +Uncompressed snapshots are large.