Examples—Creating a Differential Archive

Example 21–13 Creating a Differential Archive With the New Master Image On the Master System

In this example, the directory for unchanged master image is named unchanged_master1. The new master image that contains changes is the root (/) directory. The new master image is compared to the unchanged master image and the resulting differential archive is then compressed. The differential archive is stored in diffarchive1.flar file. The archive contains files that are to be deleted, changed, or added when installed.

# flar create -n diffarchive1 -A /a/unchanged_master1 -c diffarchive1.flar

Example 21–14 Creating a Differential Archive With the Images Stored on an Inactive Boot Environment

In this example, the unchanged master image, unchanged_master1, is stored on an inactive boot environment and is accessed by mounting the boot environment. The new master image is the root (/) directory. The new master image is compared to the unchanged master and the resulting differential archive is then compressed. The archive is stored in diffarchive4.flar. The archive contains files that are to be deleted, changed, or added when installed.

# lumount unchanged_master1 /a
# flar create -n diffarchive4 -A /a -c  diffarchive4.flar