Hi Todd, Its been a while ...
On 1/30/2018 4:20 PM, Todd Lewis wrote: > Has anybody a tool to convert "vos dump" output to a tar or zip format? To the best of my knowledge there is not such a tool. Part of the reason a tool doesn't exist is that there would not be a lossless conversion from dump to either tar or zip. Assuming that the dump contains the full contents of a volume (not an incremental) it would be possible to transfer the directory tree, file data, and symlinks. However, mount points and AFS specific metadata including ACLs, policy bits, etc. would be lost. > Is the "vos dump" format usable by anything other than "vos restore"? Yes. dumpscan and restorevol can process dump files. Teradactyl's TiBS backup system can I believe import AFS dumps and restore to non-AFS file systems. There have also been several uncompleted projects that permit dumpfiles to be mounted as if they were ISOs on Linux and Windows. Perhaps it would be useful if you could discuss the end goal of the conversion. For example, you might describe the problem as: UNC is shutting down its cell and we have 20+ years of volume dumps as backups. We would like to be able to access the contents of these backups without deploying a new cell. Sincerely, Jeffrey Altman
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