dissect.archive¶
A Dissect module implementing parsers for various archive and backup formats. Currently has support for:
Installation¶
dissect.archive is available on PyPI.
$ pip install dissect.archive
This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.
Usage¶
This package is a library with no CLI tools, so you can only interact with it from Python. For example, to print a directory listing of the root directory and read a file from a WIM archive:
from dissect.archive.wim import WIM
fh = open("path/to/file.wim", "rb")
wim = WIM(fh)
for image in wim.images():
print(image.get("/").listdir())
file_fh = image.get("/file.txt").open() # This is just another file-like object
print(file_fh.read())
Tools¶
vma-extract - CLI interface¶
Utility to extract all files contained in a VMA backup.
vma-extract [-h] -o OUTPUT [-v] input
vma-extract positional arguments¶
input- path to backup file (default:None)
vma-extract optional arguments¶
vbk-extract - CLI interface¶
Utility to extract all files contained in a VBK backup.
vbk-extract [-h] -o OUTPUT [-v] input
vbk-extract positional arguments¶
input- path to backup file (default:None)
vbk-extract optional arguments¶
backup-extract - CLI interface¶
Utility to extract all files from supported backup formats.
backup-extract [-h] -o OUTPUT [-v] input
backup-extract positional arguments¶
input- path to backup file (default:None)
backup-extract optional arguments¶
Reference¶
For more details, please refer to the API documentation of dissect.archive.