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I'm about to run an application patch on a server and before I do I would like to take a snapshot of the OS. Then after running the install I can take another one for a comparison. The idea being that if the patch changes any files outside of the /app directory then I will know from comparing snapshots.

A colleague suggested using "find / -type f -o type h -ls > snap.out", but that doesn't seem to work. I'm running this as root and nothing comes up at all. I'm running this as root.

Can someone help by suggesting a better way of doing this?

Thanks,

Yao

ps. This Solaris 8, and I'm using korn shell, if that makes a difference.

i would do that using "ufsdump".... but also a simple "tar" should work.......
the "find" workaround could be:
"find /appldir/ | cpio -pdmuv /snapshotdir/"

to duplicate your server, you could also use "flarcreate"....


you see, there are more ways than one.... a simple google search should help.........

greetings pressy

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Just so you know, I don't actually want to take an image, but rather a listing of all files, etc. Once I know what files have been changed, then I can investigate further why.

Cheers,

Yao