sav
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 10 November 2014
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NAME
sav - Make Backup Copy 
 
SYNOPSIS
edrc/bin/sav 
-h
sav 
[
-q 
]
file...
sav 
[
-q
] {
-d
|
-D subdir
}
file...
 
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/edrc
 
DESCRIPTION
The
sav
utility is used by
mkuser
(for example)
to make a backup copy of one or more files. 
Without options, the backup file will be named 
file.$TODAY
and stored in the same directory as the original. With a 
-d
or
-D subdir
option, the backup file will be stored in a subdirectory. 
Saves of files located in special operating system
configuration or state directories are always done into a
.$TODAY/
directory to ensure proper system functionality. See section
FILES
for a complete list of those directories.
 
OPTIONS
- -q
 - 
Quiet mode, does not give any warnings to standard output.
 - -d
 - 
For each 
file,
copy it to  
.$TODAY/file,
where TODAY is today's date in the form YYYYMMDD.
If the directory does not exist, it is created.
 - -D subdir
 - 
For each file, 
file
copy it to  
subdir.$TODAY/file,
where TODAY is today's date in the form YYYYMMDD.  If the directory
does not exist, it is created. (This option is used by
mkuser.
 
 
ENVIRONMENT
- $TZ
 - 
timezone setting.
 
 
EXIT STATUS
- 0
 - 
no error
 - 4
 - 
usage displayed
 - 8
 - 
could not create subdir or command interrupted 
 
 
FILES
Files located in the following operating system configuration
or state directories are always saved into the
.$TODAY/
directory as if 
sav
would be invoked using the
-d
option:
- /etc/*.d/, /etc/*/*.d/, /etc/*/*/*.d, /etc/default/
 - 
as links to the rc scripts in
/etc/init.d
and configuration of rc scripts,
as seen on HPUX,
Linux and Solaris.
 - /sbin/*.d/
 - 
as links to the rc scripts in
/etc/init.d,
as seen on HPUX.
 - /var/spool/at/
 - 
defined at jobs, as seen on Linux.
 - /var/spool/cron/atjobs/
 - 
defined at jobs, as seen on HPUX and Solaris.
 - /var/spool/cron/
 - 
defined crontabs, as seen on Linux.
 - /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
 - 
defined crontabs, as seen on HPUX and Solaris.
 - */man/man*/, */man/*/man*/
 - 
manual pages directories.
 - */lib/syspoll/protocols/*
 - 
protocol plugins of
syspoll(1).
 
 
EXAMPLES
-
 
SEE ALSO
edrcintro(1),
at(1),
cron(1m),
crontab(1m),
mkuser(1),
name(1),
timezone(3),
vsav(1)
 
NOTES
Parts of this manpage were extracted from the documentation of
the
SFI-Director
and modified to fit to the 
WA2L/edrc
package. See 
http://sfidirector.sourceforge.net
for more information about the 
SFI-Director.
 
BUGS
-
 
AUTHOR
sav was developed by Peter Stevens, SFI and integrated into
WA2L/edrc
by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net . 
 
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2015
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
edrc/doc/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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