Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   26626 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

VOLDUMP(8)		     AFS Command Reference		    VOLDUMP(8)

NAME
       voldump - Dump an AFS volume without using the Volume Server

SYNOPSIS
       voldump -part <partition> -volumeid <volume id>
	   [-file <dump file>] [-verbose] [-help]

       voldump -p <partition> -vo <volume id>
	   [-f <dump file>] [-ve] [-h]

DESCRIPTION
       voldump dumps an AFS volume in the format used by vos dump without
       using the Volume Server.	 It must be run on the file server machine and
       usually must be run as the superuser "root" to have permissions to read
       the file server data.  It's primary use is to recover data from a file
       server machine where the Volume Server cannot be started for some
       reason.

       The dump output will go to standard output, or to a file if -file is
       specified.  vos restore can be used to load the resulting dump into a
       new AFS volume.	voldump always does a full dump.

CAUTIONS
       Normally, use vos dump instead of this command.	voldump is a tool of
       last resort to try to extract data from the raw data structures stored
       on the file server machine and is not as regularly tested or used as
       the normal vos dump implementation.

       If the AFS volume being dumped changes while voldump is running, the
       results may be inconsistent.  If the File Server and Volume Server are
       running, stop them with bos shutdown or a similar method before running
       this command.

OPTIONS
       -part <partition>
	   Names the partition on which the volume to be dumped is located.
	   voldump does not take the normal full range of ways of specifying a
	   partition.  Instead, partition must be either a single letter
	   between "a" and "z", corresponding to /vicepa through /vicepz, or
	   the full path to the file server partition.	"aa" is not
	   recognized; use /vicepaa instead.

       -volumeid <volume id>
	   Specifies the ID of the volume to dump.  The volume must be
	   specified by numeric ID, not by name.

       -file <dump file>
	   Specifies the output file for the dump.  If this option is not
	   given, the volume will be dumped to standard output.

       -verbose
	   Asks for a verbose trace of the dump process.  This trace
	   information will be sent to standard error.

EXAMPLES
       The following command dumps the volume 1936964939 on the /vicepb
       partition to the file /tmp/volume.dump:

	   % voldump -part /vicepb -volumeid 1936964939 -file /tmp/volume.dump

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
       The issuer must have read access to the file server data stored in the
       specified partition.  Usually, this means that the issuer must be the
       local superuser "root" on the file server machine.

SEE ALSO
       bos_shutdown(8), restorevol(1), volserver(8), vos_dump(1),
       vos_restore(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2005 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

       This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.
       This man page was written by Russ Allbery for OpenAFS.

OpenAFS				  2013-10-09			    VOLDUMP(8)

Vote for polarhome