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aptitude-create-state-bundle(1) [linux man page]

APTITUDE-CREATE()														 APTITUDE-CREATE()

NAME

       aptitude-create-state-bundle - bundle the current aptitude state

SYNOPSIS

       aptitude-create-state-bundle [<options>...] <output-file>

DESCRIPTION

       aptitude-create-state-bundle produces a compressed archive storing the files that are required to replicate the current package archive
       state. The following files and directories are included in the bundle:

       o   $HOME/.aptitude

       o   /var/lib/aptitude

       o   /var/lib/apt

       o   /var/cache/apt/*.bin

       o   /etc/apt

       o   /var/lib/dpkg/status

       The output of this program can be used as an argument to aptitude-run-state-bundle(1).

OPTIONS

       --force-bzip2
	   Override the autodetection of which compression algorithm to use. By default, aptitude-create-state-bundle uses bzip2(1) if it is
	   available, and gzip(1) otherwise. Passing this option forces the use of bzip2 even if it doesn't appear to be available.

       --force-gzip
	   Override the autodetection of which compression algorithm to use. By default, aptitude-create-state-bundle uses bzip2(1) if it is
	   available, and gzip(1) otherwise. Passing this option forces the use of gzip even if bzip2 is available.

       --help
	   Print a brief usage message, then exit.

       --print-inputs
	   Instead of creating a bundle, display a list of the files and directories that the program would include if it generated a bundle.

FILE FORMAT

       The bundle file is simply a tar(1) file compressed with bzip2(1) or gzip(1), with each of the input directory trees rooted at ".".

SEE ALSO

       aptitude-run-state-bundle(1), aptitude(8), apt(8)

AUTHOR

       Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
	   Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007 Daniel Burrows.

       This manual page is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

																 APTITUDE-CREATE()

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NAME

       virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

       The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use "-" to
       write to standard output.

EXAMPLES

       Download the home directories from a guest:

	virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
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OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

AUTHORS

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.	<http://libguestfs.org/>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

libguestfs-1.18.1						    2013-12-07							   virt-tar-out(1)
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