VENTI-BACKUP man page on Plan9

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VENTI-BACKUP(8)						       VENTI-BACKUP(8)

NAME
       rdarena, wrarena - copy arenas between venti servers

SYNOPSIS
       venti/rdarena [ -qv ] arenapart arenaname

       venti/wrarena [ -o fileoffset ] [ -h host ] arenafile [ clumpoffset ]

DESCRIPTION
       Rdarena extracts the named arena from the arena partition arenapart and
       writes this arena to standard output.  This command is  typically  used
       to  back	 up  an arena to external media.  The -v option generates more
       verbose output on standard error; -q generates only errors on  standard
       error.

       Wrarena	writes the blocks contained in the arena arenafile (typically,
       the output of rdarena) to a Venti server.   It  is  typically  used  to
       reinitialize a Venti server from backups of the arenas.	For example,

	      venti/rdarena /dev/sdC0/arenas arena.0 >external.media
	      venti/wrarena -h venti2 external.media

       writes the blocks contained in arena.0 to the Venti server venti2 (typ‐
       ically not the one using /dev/sdC0/arenas).

       The -o option specifies	that  the  arena  starts  at  byte  fileoffset
       (default	 0)  in	 arenafile .  This is useful for reading directly from
       the Venti arena partition:

	      venti/wrarena -h venti2 -o 335872 /dev/sdC0/arenas

       (In this example, 335872 is the offset  shown  in  the  Venti  server's
       index  list  (344064) minus one block (8192).  You will need to substi‐
       tute your own arena offsets and block size.)

       Finally, the optional offset argument specifies that the writing should
       begin  with  the	 clump	starting  at offset within the arena.  Wrarena
       prints the offset it stopped  at	 (because  there  were	no  more  data
       blocks).	 This could be used to incrementally back up a Venti server to
       another Venti server:

	      last=`{cat last}
	      venti/wrarena -h venti2 -o 335872 /dev/sdC0/arenas $last >output
	      awk '/^end offset/ { print $3 }' offset >last

       Of course, one would need to add wrapper code to keep  track  of	 which
       arenas  have been processed.  See /sys/src/cmd/venti/words/backup.exam‐
       ple for a version that does this.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/venti/srv

SEE ALSO
       venti(6), venti(8)

BUGS
       Wrarena can't read a pipe or network connection containing an arena; it
       needs a file already containing the entire arena.

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