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Miscellaneous comments about dumping

After dumping some portion of the database using this method, you can then load it into another database using t2lincks. See the t2lincks man page for how to do this.

Note also that using DBDump is not necessary if you want to dump the entire database. Instead, there is a separate program called `dbdump' which is intended for this purpose. See its man page for further information.

Moreover, when dumping parts of the database where objects have binary image information (not ending with a zero or containing several zero characters), the dumping process might create extra files for the binary image(s). The generated files are named NODE111.image and are used in a statement like `.binary NODE111 < "NODE111.image"'. The filenames are derived from the object's names with the extension .image. Files are only generated when the size of the binary information is greater than a certain constant (currently 1000 bytes); in other cases the binary information is included as a uuencoded string in the generated t2lincks file.



Martin Sjolin
Mon May 29 19:53:45 MET DST 1995