Something

[herrold@centos-4 images]$ cat snapshot.sh
#!/bin/sh
#
#
[ "x$1" = "x" ] && {
        echo "Usage: $0 (hostname)" 1>&2
        exit 1
        }
[ ! -d ./$1/ ] && {
        mkdir ./$1
        }
YYYYMMDD=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo "$YYYYMMDD"
ssh $1 rpm -qa  --qf \'%{name} \\n\' | sort > ./$1/rpmlist-$YYYYMMDD.txt
for i in ` echo " etc root usr/local/bin var/spool/mail  \
        var/named" `; do
        mkdir -p ./$1/$i/
        rsync -a -e ssh $1:/$i/. ./$1/$i/.
done
#
#