Helen,

Thanks for the answer, but it only marginally answers the question: I have
noticed from reading the code that XDR (and luckily I already used it years
ago) is used for the transformation format, but this only explains the
difference between the transportable format and the normal format. I had
thought there was more to that format difference, and reading the code
showed this use of XDR.

But unless I do not understand it correctly, this does not document the
backup format: it explains the encoding used within it for the elements it
stores, but not the overall format.of the files.

Do you have another suggestion ?

Thanks anyway,

Frederic


Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 23:59:56 +1000
From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>

At 12:49 PM 29/05/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have searched for a documentation/specification of the
>(transportable) backup format, but haven't been able to
>find one: even the sources in the burp directory do not
>seem to make reference to a specification.
>
>Is this documentation available anywhere ?

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html

/heLen