<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 2008 (1.71) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Serialization</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Serialization"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="developers"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="LaTeX2HTML v2008"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="developers.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="Block_Header.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="Overall_Format.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="Storage_Media_Output_Format.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="Block_Header.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html1121" HREF="Block_Header.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1115" HREF="Storage_Media_Output_Format.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1109" HREF="Overall_Format.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1117" HREF="Contents.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1119" HREF="GNU_Free_Documentation_Lice.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="index.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1122" HREF="Block_Header.html">Block Header</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1116" HREF="Storage_Media_Output_Format.html">Storage Media Output Format</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1110" HREF="Overall_Format.html">Overall Format</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html1118" HREF="Contents.html">Contents</A></B> <B> <A NAME="tex2html1120" HREF="GNU_Free_Documentation_Lice.html">Index</A></B> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION001150000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="3912"></A> <BR> Serialization </H1> <P> All Block Headers, Record Headers, and Label Records are written using Bacula's serialization routines. These routines guarantee that the data is written to the output volume in a machine independent format. <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> 2010-06-14 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>