1## RocksDB dump format
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3The version 1 RocksDB dump format is fairly simple:
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51) The dump starts with the magic 8 byte identifier "ROCKDUMP"
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72) The magic is followed by an 8 byte big-endian version which is 0x00000001.
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93) Next are arbitrarily sized chunks of bytes prepended by 4 byte little endian number indicating how large each chunk is.
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114) The first chunk is special and is a json string indicating some things about the creation of this dump.  It contains the following keys:
12* database-path: The path of the database this dump was created from.
13* hostname: The hostname of the machine where the dump was created.
14* creation-time: Unix seconds since epoc when this dump was created.
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165) Following the info dump the slices paired into are key/value pairs.
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