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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Got a million dollar question here:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">from the binary</font> </p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Grande">$ jamf help takeSnapshot</font> </p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Grande">Usage: jamf takeSnapshot -target <target volume> -saveTo </path/to/file> [-modDates]</font> </p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Grande"> -target The target drive take a snapshot of</font> </p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Grande"> -saveTo The file to save the snapshot to</font> </p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Grande"> -modDates Have the snapshot include modification dates of files</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">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.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">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.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">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? </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">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?</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Thanks,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Tom</font>
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