savedump(1)
NAME
- savedump - copy LKCD dump image from raw block device to a
- filesystem or ftp site.
SYNOPSIS
savedump [ [-r dumpdevice] || [-e dumpdevice] ] [-d
dumpdevice] [-o dump-path]
DESCRIPTION
- savedump copies a LKCD dump image from a raw block device
- to a filesystem or a ftp site. Savedump is generally run via
- /etc/init.d/dumputils on bootup, to automate dump recovery. Once
- invoked savedump reads it's configuration information from
- /etc/dumputils.conf.
- dumpdevice:
- The dumpdevice argument is the dump device that holds the
- raw LKCD dump. such as: /dev/vmdump
- dump-path:
- The dump-path argument is the path to store the resulting
- dump file to. It may be a path on a filesystem or a FTP URL in
- the form. ftp://user:password@host:port/path where user, pass
- word, port & path are optional.
OPTIONS
- [-r] Reset the raw LKCD dump from the dumpdevice, option
- is exclusive of -e
- [-e] Erase the raw LKCD dump from the dumpdevice, option
- is exclusive of -r
- [-d] Specify the dumpdevice overriding DUMPDEV=
- /etc/dumputils.conf file.
- [-o] Specify the dump-path overriding DUMPDIR= in the
- /etc/dumputils.conf file.
RETURN VALUES
- 10 malloc() returned NULL, could not allocate memory
- Establishing FTP connection
- 20 gethostbyname() returned 0, could not resolve host
- name
- 21 socket() returned -1, could not create socket
- 22 connect() returned -1, could not connect to socket
- 23 FTP, timeout waiting for response from server
- 24 FTP, timeout while writing to server.
- 31 fdopen() returned NULL, could not create filestream
- 32 FTP, protocol error when getting response from
- server
- 33 FTP, USER command failed.
- 34 FTP, invalid user
- 35 FTP, invalid login (password)
- 36 FTP, SYST command failed
- 37 FTP, bad response to SYST
- 38 FTP, Could not open file
Accessing DUMPDEVICE- 40 stat() returned -1, Can not stat DUMPDEVICE
- 41 DUMPDEVICE is not a valid block device
Parsing /etc/dumputils.conf- 50 No valid DUMPDEV= parameter found in
- /etc/duputils.conf
- 51 No valid DUMPDIR= parameter found in
- /etc/duputils.conf
- 53 Can not open /etc/duputils.conf
General Errors- 60 Must be root to run savedump.
- 61 Failed to mark dump as erased
- 62 Failed to mark dump as valid (reset)
- 63 Error parsing arguments
- 64 stat() returned -1, Can not stat DUMPDIR (output)
- 65 DUMPDIR is not a directory
- 66 fcntl failed
Parsing FTP URL- 71 URL is > 500 characters
- 72 Not a RFC 1738 compliant URL
Local filesystem- 81 Could not open or write to file, it may already ex
- ist, or you don't have permission
- 82 Could not open /boot/System.map for read
- 83 Could not open dump partition for read
- 84 read, write or seek failed on dump partition
- 85 Invalid dump header.
- 86 Could not write dump, dump header, or dump page
- 87 Dump is nothing but header
- 88 Dump page read error
- 89 Corruped dump, dump truncated
AUTHOR
- Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>
- Linux October 2004