February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 33m
English
You need to finish the installation of the Redis Server, as we described in the Downloading and installing Redis recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Redis.
To inspect a binary file format, a binary editor is a must. In Ubuntu Linux, bvi is the most common binary editor. Install it as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install bvi
For macOS, you can download HexFriend at: https://github.com/ridiculousfish/HexFiend/releases
For the purpose of demonstration, flushing all the data with the FLUSHALL command is needed.
Because we will explore the RDB file in hex, an ASCII character should be looked up in an ASCII table. The website RapidTables (http://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.htm) is a great help for this.
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