How to get data from SNAP file?

UNIX AIX
1

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if can access

  1. /etc/environment from SNAP file
  2. to check the time zone from the snap file

Objective:
The timezone on the server was changed by someone to another timezone, so I want to check what is the old timezone was ?
I have an old SNAP file.

Does anyone if it stores Timezone in the snapfile and/or if the old timezone is stored somewhere in the AIX OS files ?

Thanks

2

Hi,

The "snap" files that I have seen tended to be written using pax so you could try;

pax < filename

The above should list the contents of the file, if you run pax -r < filename it should extract in the current directory.

Regards

Gull04

3

Thanks gull04,
but which file inside SNAP contains /etc/environment or timezone details ?

4

Hi,

The TZ variable is usually set in the /etc/environment file, I would imagine that this is held in the first part of the file however;

When you look at the snap file what do you see when you run;

pax < filename

The snap utility can be run with a number of switches, one of these invokes split if this has been done you should see a number of files like below.

filename.aaa
filename.aab
filename.aac
filename.aad

In order to read these it may be necessary to use cat to concatenate the files and the pipe the output to pax .

cat filename.aaa filename.aab filename.aac filename.aad | pax

Regards

Gull04

5

I found it
it is under

/tmp/ibmsupt/general> general.snap

this file is there regardless of

snap -a

or

snap -g