VDODUMPMETADATA(8)

NAME
vdodumpmetadata - dump the metadata regions from a VDO device

SYNOPSIS
vdodumpmetadata [--no-block-map] [--lbn=lbn] vdoBacking outputFile

DESCRIPTION
vdodumpmetadata dumps the metadata regions of a VDO device to another file, to enable save and transfer of metadata from a VDO without transfer of the entire backing store.

vdodumpmetadata will produce a large output file. The expected size is roughly equal to VDO's metadata size. A rough estimate of the storage needed is 1.4 GB per TB of logical space.

OPTIONS

--no-block-map
    Omit the block map. The output file will be of size no higher than 130MB + (9 MB per slab).

--lbn
    Saves the block map page associated with the specified LBN in the output file. This option may be specified up to 255 times. Implies --no-block-map.

SEE ALSO
vdo(8).