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MKAF(1) General Commands Manual MKAF(1)
mkaf - create a Performance Co-Pilot archive folio
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/mkaf [-?] [findopts] filename ...
A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (see PCPIntro(1))
archives may be combined with mkaf to produce a PCP archive folio
and the associated archive folio control file. Some PCP tools use
mkaf to create archive folios, e.g. the ``record'' facility in the
pmchart(1) and pmview(1) tools, to facilitate playback with
pmafm(1).
mkaf processes each filename argument, and if this is a component
file from a PCP archive that archive is added to the folio.
If filename is a directory, then this is searched recursively
using find(1). Any filename argument beginning with a ``-'' is
assumed to be a find(1) command line option (findopts); the
default is -follow if no findopts are specified.
The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be associated
with the default host for any tool that tries to replay multiple
archives from the folio.
The folio control file is written to standard output, and has the
following format.
1. The first line contains the word PCPFolio.
2. The second line contains the tag Version: followed by the
format version number (currently 1).
3. For subsequent lines, blank lines and lines beginning with
``#'' are ignored.
4. The line beginning with the tag Created: documents where and
when the folio was created.
5. The line beginning with the tag Creator: identifies the tool
which created the folio (and is assumed to know how to replay
the archive folio). If present, the second argument is the
name of a configuration file that the creator tool could use to
replay the archive folio, e.g. with the replay command for
pmafm(1). In the case of mkaf (unlike pmchart(1) or pmview(1))
there is no knowledge of the contents of the archives, so the
``creator'' cannot replay the archive, however pmchart(1) is
able to replay any archive, and so this tool is identified as
the Creator: for archive folios created by mkaf(1).
6. This is then followed by one or more lines beginning with the
tag Archive: followed by the hostname and base name of the
archive.
For example
$ mkaf mydir/gonzo
might produce the following folio control file.
PCPFolio
Version: 1
# use pmafm(1) to process this PCP archive folio
#
Created: on gonzo at Tue Jul 2 03:35:54 EST 1996
Creator: pmchart
# Host Basename
#
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960627
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960628
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960629
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960630
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960701
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960701.00.10
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960701.05.25
Archive: gonzo mydir/gonzo/960702.00.10
The available command line options are:
-? Display usage message and exit.
-findopts
Options to be passed to find(1). The default is -follow.
Some informational messages, warnings and pathological conditions
are reported on standard error.
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to
parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each
installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for
these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an
alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
find(1), PCPIntro(1), pmafm(1), pmchart(1), pmview(1), pcp.conf(5)
and pcp.env(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, send it to [email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
Performance Co-Pilot PCP MKAF(1)
Pages that refer to this page: mkaf(1), pcp2arrow(1), pcp2elasticsearch(1), pcp2graphite(1), pcp2influxdb(1), pcp2json(1), pcp2openmetrics(1), pcp2spark(1), pcp2template(1), pcp2xlsx(1), pcp2xml(1), pcp2zabbix(1), pcp-atop(1), pcp-atopsar(1), pmafm(1), pmlogger_check(1), pmlogger_daily(1), pmrep(1), pmgetoptions(3), LOGARCHIVE(5)
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