vosnap

NAME

vosnap - take a snapshot of voter input

SYNOPSIS

vosnap service-name

vosnap --help

DESCRIPTION

Service utility vosnap takes a snapshot of voter input. It reads the input from the input store, and writes it to the snapshot output store. In the process it creates a new snap directory, the path of which it prints to standard out.

The electoral service is specified by its service-name address.

The newly created snap directory (assuming default configuration of the electoral service) is:
/var/cache/votorola/subserver-name/snapout/service-name/snap_date.

SEE ALSO

Use vocount(1) to tally the results of an election, after taking a snapshot of the election with vosnap.

Use volist(1) to compile a list of voters, after taking a snapshot of the electoral register with vosnap.

See Votorola(7) for an overview of Votorola.