AFP_VOLUUID.CONF(5)

Name

afp_voluuid.conf — Configuration file used by afpd to specify UUID for AFP volumes

Description

afp_voluuid.conf is the configuration file used by afpd to store UUID of all AFP volumes. The configuration lines are composed like:

    "volume-name" "uuid-string"

The first field is the volume name. Volume names must be quoted if they contain spaces. The second field is the 36 character hexadecimal ASCII string representation of a UUID.

All leading spaces and tabs are ignored. Blank lines are ignored. The lines prefixed with # are ignored. Any illegal lines are ignored.

This UUID is advertised by Zeroconf in order to provide robust disambiguation of Time Machine volumes.

It is also used by the MySQL and SQLite CNID backends as the name of the database table storing the CNID information for the volume.

    NOTE: This file should not be thoughtlessly edited or copied onto another server.

    If you want to set a particular UUID for your volume, use the option “volume uuid =” in afp.conf. In this case, afp_voluuid.conf is not used.

Examples

  Example: afp_voluuid.conf with three volumes

    # This is a comment.
    "Backup for John Smith" 1573974F-0ABD-69CC-C40A-8519B681A0E1
    "bob" 39A487F4-55AA-8240-E584-69AA01800FE9
    mary 6331E2D1-446C-B68C-3066-D685AADBE911

See also

afpd(8), afp.conf(5), avahi-daemon(8), mDNSResponder(8)

Author

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