[Casper] jamf takeSnapshot

[Eric Winkelhake]

I use tar for such situations, always works, preserves everything, no 
questions asked.

eric winkelhake
mundocomww
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From:
"Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org>
To:
<casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Date:
06/03/2009 10:47 AM
Subject:
[Casper] jamf takeSnapshot
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Got a million dollar question here: 

from the binary 

$ jamf help takeSnapshot 

Usage: jamf takeSnapshot -target <target volume> -saveTo </path/to/file> 
[-modDates] 


-target The target drive take a snapshot of 

-saveTo The file to save the snapshot to 

-modDates Have the snapshot include modification dates of files 



Has anyone used this feature before?  I have run into a few machines 
lately where the mobile user account on a laptop is just botched beyond 
belief and of course there is always like billions of files (ok that is a 
hyperbole) that the end user never backed up.  I am accessing these files 
from the command line manually copying them to the local user account and 
then backing those up off the machine so I can wipe and reimage and then 
apply the back up back to the machine once it has been wiped. 

I am just looking at an easier method of grabbing data than manually from 
the command line.  In all 4 or 5 cases I have seen in the last few weeks 
the user account pretty much disappears all together from the GUI, but is 
still accessible from the command line. 

I assume that if I mount a network share to the machine from the local 
account and take a snap shot of a user's home directory and save it to 
that network share I can just copy it back?     

Anyone ever use this feature at all?  What does it use under the hood, 
rsync?  Is -modDates just like the -E switch in rsycn that captures 
extended attributes of a file? 

Thanks, 

Tom 

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