1PMEMPOOL-DUMP(1) PMDK Programmer's Manual PMEMPOOL-DUMP(1)
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6 pmempool-dump - dump user data from persistent memory pool
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9 $ pmempool dump [<options>] <file>
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12 The pmempool invoked with dump command dumps user data from specified
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15 By default the output format is hexadecimal.
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17 By default data is dumped to standard output. It is possible to dump
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21 Using -r option you can specify number of blocks/bytes/data chunks us‐
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27 Dump data in binary format.
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31 Range of pool file to dump. This may be number of blocks for blk pool
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37 Size of chunk for log pool type. See pmemlog_walk(3) in libpmemlog(7)
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46 Display help message and exit.
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73 Dump user data from pool.bin file to standard output
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82 Dump data form 1K to 2K from pool.bin file.
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85 pmempool(1), libpmemblk(7), libpmemlog(7), libpmemobj(7) and
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