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savemeta(8)
NAME
  savemeta - Takes a snapshot of an AdvFS domain's metadata

SYNOPSIS
  /sbin/advfs/savemeta [-LSTtr] [-f fileset] domain savedir

OPTIONS
  -f fileset
      Saves the structure information from the frag file in each named
      fileset to the savedir. If this option is not specified, the default is
      to write no frag file information to the savedir.

  -L  Do not save the domain's log file to the savedir.	 If this option is
      not specified, the default is to write the log file to the savedir.

  -r  Allows savemeta to run on mounted but corrupt domains by acquiring
      metadata information from the raw device.

  -S  Do not save each volume's storage bitmap (SBM) to the savedir.  If this
      option is not specified, the default is to write each volume's SBM to
      the savedir.

  -T  Do not save the domain's root tag file to the savedir.  If this option
      is not specified, the default is to write the root tag file to the
      savedir.

  -t  Do not save the fileset tag files to the savedir. If this option is not
      specified, the default is to write the fileset tag files to the
      savedir.

OPERANDS
  domain
      The name of the AdvFS domain from which you want to obtain the
      metadata.

  savedir
      The name of a directory into which the saved metadata is to be written.

DESCRIPTION
  This script saves a snapshot of the specified domain metadata into a
  directory, savedir, that has the following structure:

		savedir/volume_directory/RBMT_file
				    /BMT_file
				    /SBM_file
		  /log_file
		  /tag_file
		  /fileset_directory/frag_file
				    /tag_file

  By default, the savemeta command saves all the bitfile metadata (BMT), all
  the SBM, the log and root tag files, and the fileset tag files. If you
  specify the -f option, the command saves the frag file information for each
  fileset.

				    Caution

       When the -r option is supplied and a fileset is mounted, the raw disk
       being read may not have all the data that is in the kernel's buffers.
       When this happens the data saved by savemeta may be inconsistent.

RESTRICTIONS
  You must be the root user to use this command.

EXIT STATUS
  This command returns a 0 (zero) on success.  Otherwise, it returns a 1 and
  displays an error diagnostic.

FILES
  /sbin/advfs/savemeta
      The command path.

SEE ALSO
  Commands: nvbmtpg(8), nvfragpg(8), nvlogpg(8), nvtagpg(8), vsbmpg(8)

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