crashutil(1M)															     crashutil(1M)

NAME

       crashutil - manipulate crash dump data

SYNOPSIS

       version] source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       copies and preserves crash dump data, and performs format conversions on it.  Common uses of include:

       o    Copying portions of a dump that still reside on a raw dump device into a crash dump directory.

       o    Converting between different formats of crash dumps.

       o    Copying crash dumps from one directory, or medium, to another.

       will  write  to	its destination the crash dump it reads from its source.  The crash dump format used to write the destination is specified
       with if is not specified, the destination will have the same format as the source.  If no destination is specified,  source  is	used;  the
       format conversion will be done in place in the source, without copying.	When completes successfully, the entire contents of the crash dump
       will exist at destination; any portions that had still been on raw dump devices will have been copied to destination.

       There are three known dump formats:

       (Version 0)   This format, used up through HP-UX 10.01, consists of a single file containing the physical memory image, with a 1-to-1  cor-
		     respondence  between  file  offset  and  memory  address.	 Normally there is an associated file containing the kernel image.
		     sources or destinations of this type must be specified as two pathnames to plain files, separated by whitespace; the first is
		     the core image file and the second is the kernel image file.

       (Version 1)   This format, used in HP-UX 10.10, 10.20, and 10.30, consists of a directory containing an file, the kernel file, and numerous
		     files, which contain portions of the physical memory image.  sources or destinations of this type should be specified as  the
		     pathname to a core directory.

       (Version 2)   This format, used in HP-UX 11.00 and later, consists of a directory containing an file, the kernel and all dynamically loaded
		     kernel module files, and numerous files, each of which contain portions of the physical memory image and metadata	describing
		     which  memory pages were dumped and which were not.  sources or destinations of this type should be specified as the pathname
		     to a crash directory.

       (Version 3)   This format is used in HP-UX Release 11i Version 1.0 and later.  It is very similar in structure to the  format  in  that	it
		     consists  of  a  directory containing an file, the kernel and all dynamically loaded kernel module files, and numerous files,
		     each of which contain portions of the physical memory image and metadata describing which memory pages were dumped and  which
		     were not.	In addition to the primary file, there are auxiliary index files, that contain metadata describing the image files
		     containing the memory pages.  This format will be used when the dump is compressed.  See crashconf(1M).

       Other formats, for example tape archival formats, may be added in the future.

       When the source and destination are different types of files -- for example, when source is a directory and destination is a pair of  plain
       files -- both must be specified.

   Options
       (Quiet)	Disables the printing of progress messages.
		   Warning and error messages are still printed.

       Specifies the version of the destination format.
		   Allowed values are 0, 1, 2 or 3.  Also allowed is the keyword which specifies that the destination format should be the same as
		   the current source format.  is the default if is not specified.  If the destination format is then  the  source  format  should
		   also be Conversion to from older formats is not supported.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon exit, returns the following values:

	      0    The operation was successful.
	      1    The operation failed, and an appropriate error message was printed.

EXAMPLES

       An  HP-UX  11.00  crash	dump was saved by savecrash(1M) to The flag was specified to savecrash, specifying that only those portions of the
       dump which were endangered by swap activity should be saved; the rest are still resident in the raw dump devices.  To save the remainder of
       the dump into the crash dump directory, use:

       If preferred, the completed crash dump directory could be in a different location -- perhaps on another machine via NFS:

       To  debug  this	crash  dump using tools which do not understand the most current crash dump format, convert it to the older core directory
       format:

       or the even older "core file and kernel" format:

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       savecrash(1M), crashconf(1M).

																     crashutil(1M)