RE: [cobalt-users] What is the format of the Raq3 backup files?

["JK" <thejk@xxxxxxxx>]

Well, last time I looked in the archive, I came across a perl script
that strips away the header info for RaQ2 backups. With a little
modification, I was able to get it to work for RaQ3. Look below.

>Does anyone know the format of the RAQ3 backup files?  I
>want to look at the
>contents, but I can't figure out how to uncompress it.  I
>have searched this
>list to no avail.

I call this strip.pl ;-)

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Jeff Bilicki
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>jeffb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</
underline></color>>
# modified for Ra3 use by JK (thejk@xxxxxxxx)

# removes the header out of a Qube 2 and RaQ 2 backup file


use strict;


my ($infile);

my ($outfile) = "out.tar.gz";

my ($end) = "\%\%END_XML";

my ($begin) = "\%\%BACKUP_HEADER";


if (@ARGV) {

        $infile = $ARGV[0];

} else {

        print "usage: stripheader.pl <<file name>\n";

        exit 1;

}


open (INFILE, $infile) or die "Can't open: $!\n";

open (OUTFILE, ">$outfile") or die "Can't open $!\n";


while (<INFILE>) {

        if ( /^$begin/ ... /^$end/ ) {

                next;

        } else {

                print OUTFILE $_;

        }

}

close(INFILE);

close(OUTFILE);

exit 0;