NAME
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vac, unvac – create, extract a vac archive on Venti |
SYNOPSIS
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vac [ –mqstv ] [ –a vacfile ] [ –b blocksize ] [ –d oldvacfile ] [
–e exclude ] [ –f vacfile ] [ –i name ] [ –h host ] [ –x excludefile
] file ...
unvac [ –Tcdtv ] [ –h host ] vacfile [ file ... ] |
DESCRIPTION
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Vac creates an archival copy of Plan 9 file trees on Venti. It
can be used to build a simple backup system. One of the unusual
properties of Venti is that duplicate blocks are detected and
coalesced. When vac is used on a file tree that shares data with
an existing archive, the consumption of storage will be approximately
equal to an incremental backup. This reduction in storage consumption
occurs transparently to the user. As an optimization, the –d and –q options, described below, can be used to explicitly create an archive relative to an existing archive. These options do not change the resulting archive generated by vac, but simply reduce the number of write operations to Venti.
The output of vac is the hexadecimal representation of the SHA1
fingerprint of the root of the archive, in this format:
–a vacfile Specifies that vac should create or update a backup archive, inserting the files under an extra two levels of directory hierarchy named yyyy/mmdd (year, month, day) in the style of the dump file system (see fs(4)). If vacfile already exists, an additional backup day is added to the existing hierarchy,
–d oldvacfileReduce the number of blocks written to Venti by comparing the files to be stored with the contents of an existing vac file tree whose score is stored in oldvacfile. –e exclude Do not include the file or directory specified by exclude. This option may be repeated multiple times. Exclude can be a shell pattern as accepted by rc(1), with one extension: ... matches any sequence of characters including slashes. –f vacfile The results of vac are placed in vacfile, or the standard output if no file is given. –i name Include standard input as one of the input files, storing it in the archive with the specified name. –h host The network address of the Venti server. The default is taken from the environment variable venti. If this variable does not exist, then the default is the metaname $venti, which can be configured via ndb(6). –m Expand and merge any vac archives that are found while reading the input files. This option is useful for building an archive from a collection of existing archives. Each archive is inserted into the new archive as if it had been unpacked in the directory in which it was found. Multiple archives can be
–s Print out various statistics on standard error. –t Exclude files and directories with the temporary flag set. –v Produce more verbose output on standard error, including the name of the files added to the archive and the vac archives that are expanded and merged. –x excfile Read exclude patterns from the file excfile. Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored. All other lines should be of the form include pattern or exclude pattern. When considering whether to include a directory or file in the vac archive, the earliest matching pattern in the file applies. The
–T Set the modification time on extracted files to the time listed in the archive. –c Write extracted files to standard output instead of creating a file. –d Reduce the number of blocks read from Venti by comparing the files to be stored with their counterparts in the file system. This option cannot be used with –c. –t Print a list of the files to standard output rather than extracting them. –v If extracting files, print the name of each file and directory to standard error. If listing files, print metadata in addition to the names. –h as per vac. |
SOURCE
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/sys/src/cmd/vac |
SEE ALSO
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vacfs(4), venti(8) |