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aimage

NAME

aimage - Image a hard drive into AFF or raw format

SYNOPSIS

aimage [options] INPUT1 [OUTFILE1] [INPUT2 OUTPUT2] ...

INPUT may be any of these:

- A device e.g. /dev/disk1 or /dev/stdin, for standard input
- Listen on TCP port eg: listen:1234

OUTFILE may be:

- outfile.aff - image to the AFF file outfile

OPTIONS

General Options:

--quiet, -q

No interactive statistics.

--batch, -Y

Batch output

--silent, -Q

No output at all except for errors.

--readsectors=nn, -R nnnn

set number of sectors to read at once (default 32768)

--version, -v

Just print the version number and exit.

--skip=nn[s], -k nn

Skip nn bytes [or nns for sectors] in input file

--no_beeps, -B

Don't beep when imaging is finished.

--logfile=fn, -l fn

Where to write a log. By default none is written

--logAFF, -L

Log all AFF operations

--preview, -p

view some of the data as it goes by.

--no_preview, -P

do not show the preview.

Existing File Options:

--append, -a

Append to existing file

--zap, -z

Erase outfile(s) before writing

Raw Output Options:

--raw=fname, -r

fname write block-by-block output to fname.

AFF Options:

--outfile=fname, -ofname

write an AFF file.

--image_pagesize=nnn, -S nnnn

set the AFF page size (default 16777216) (number can be suffixed with b, k, m or g) Also sets maxsize to be 2^32 if not otherwise set.

--make_config, -m

Make the config file if it doesn't exist Config file is aimage.cfg by default and can be overridden by the AIMAGE_CONFIG enviroment variable

--no_dmesg, -D

Do not put dmesg into the AFF file

--no_ifconfig, -I

Do not put ifconfig output into AFF file (Currently unset)

--no_compress, -x

Do not compress. Useful on slow machines.

--compression=n, -Xn

Set the compression level

--auto_compress, -A

write as fast as possible, with compression if it helps. sets compression level 1

--maxsize=n, -Mn

sets the maximum size of output file to be n.. Default units are megabytes; suffix with 'g', 'm', 'k' or 'b' use 'cd' for a 650MB CD. use 'bigcd' for a 700MB CD.

--setseg name=value, -s name=value

Create segment 'name' and give it 'value'. This option may be repeated.

--no_hash, -H

Do not calculate MD5 and SHA1 of image.

Error Recovery Options:

--error=0, -e0

Standard error recovery: Read disk 256K at a time until there are 5 errors in a row. Then go to the end of the disk and read backwards until there are 5 erros in a row. Then stop.

--error=1 -e1

Stop reading at first error.

--retry=nn -tnn

change retry count from 5 to nn

--reverse, -V

Scan in reverse to the beginning.

Other:

--help, -h

Print help message.

--fast_quit, -Z

Make ^c just exit immediately.

--allow_regular, -E

allow the imaging of a regular file

--title=s, -T s

change title to s (from IMAGING) and disable blink

--debug=n, -d n

set debug code n (-d0 for list)

--use_timers, -y

Use timers for compressing, reading & writing times

EXAMPLES

Create image.aff from /dev/sd0:

aimage /dev/sd0 image.aff or aimage -o image.aff /dev/sd0

Create image0.aff from /dev/sd0 and image1 from /dev/sd1:

aimage /dev/sd0 image0.aff /dev/sd1 /image1.aff

AUTHOR

aimage is part of afflib and was written by Simson L. Garfinkel

This manual page was written by Kenny Duffus <kenny@duffus.org> for Ubuntu but may be used by others.