savedump - copy LKCD dump image from raw block device to a filesystem or ftp site.

savedump [ [-r dumpdevice] || [-e dumpdevice] ] [-d dumpdevice] [-o dump-path]

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, password, port & path are optional.

[-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.

-10

malloc() returned NULL, could not allocate memory

Establishing FTP connection

-20

gethostbyname() returned 0, could not resolve hostname

-21

socket() returned -1, could not create socket

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connect() returned -1, could not connect to socket

-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)

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FTP, SYST command failed

-37

FTP, no response to SYST

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FTP, bad response to SYST

-39

FTP, Could not open file

Accessing DUMPDEVICE

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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

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No valid DUMPDIR= parameter found in /etc/duputils.conf

-52

No valid DUMP_SAVE= 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

Can not read or create bounds file

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 exist, 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

Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>