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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Chkpoint file... is it a UNIX backup file ? Post 302987535 by rbatte1 on Monday 12th of December 2016 08:28:56 AM
Old 12-12-2016
Filenames for unix backups aren't necessarily important and as such there may not be a standard. This is likely just a "file" that can be read back by the appropriate tool, but it will be trial and error over which command wrote the file.

You might try tar -tvf chkpoint or if it might be compress, it will be tar -tzvf chkpoint or zcat chkpoint | tar -tvf -

It might be a cpio backup, or ufsdump or any number of 3rd party might have been used to create it. What OS are you able to read the file with? We might be able to get a bit more of a clue with the tools available.


If it was a .dmp then it might well be a database backup, but that's not guaranteed. Even a .tar.Z might not be a compressed-tar file.



Robin
(What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet)
 

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AUTRACE:(8)                                               System Administration Utilities                                              AUTRACE:(8)

NAME
autrace - a program similar to strace SYNOPSIS
autrace program [-r] [program-args]... DESCRIPTION
autrace is a program that will add the audit rules to trace a process similar to strace. It will then execute the program passing arguments to it. The resulting audit information will be in the audit logs if the audit daemon is running or syslog. This command deletes all audit rules prior to executing the target program and after executing it. As a safety precaution, it will not run unless all rules are deleted with auditctl prior to use. OPTIONS
-r Limit syscalls collected to ones needed for analyzing resource usage. This could help people doing threat modeling. This saves space in logs. EXAMPLES
The following illustrates a typical session: autrace /bin/ls /tmp ausearch --start recent -p 2442 -i and for resource usage mode: autrace -r /bin/ls ausearch --start recent -p 2450 --raw | aureport --file --summary ausearch --start recent -p 2450 --raw | aureport --host --summary SEE ALSO
ausearch(8), auditctl(8). AUTHOR
Steve Grubb Red Hat Jan 2007 AUTRACE:(8)
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