>
> Is there any place that documents the contents of a data stream
> generated by the AFS 3.4 backup system (without resorting to
> reading through the backup source code).
>
> Since AFS backups can now write to a file, I'd like be able to backup
> to a named pipe and have another process read the data from the pipe
> and be able to extract info from it. I would guess that the data
> stream contains things like file size, filename, last access time,
> ACLs, file contents, etc. etc. - all of which a third process is
> expecting as separate entities.
Hah!
AFAIK, this is not documented anywhere except in the source code.
I recently wrote a utility which can interpret AFS volume dumps,
including being able to interpret directories (mostly; that part is
still a little kludgy). Of course, once I got the thing working, I
discovered I no longer needed the benefit of a utility to read
volume dumps; emacs hexl-mode is now sufficient. :-)
Anyway, I'll be happy to send copies of my program to anyone
interested who has an AFS source license. Eventually, I'd like
to be able to distribute this to anyone, but I need to make sure
that won't be a problem.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer, CMU SCS Research Facility
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