February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 33m
English
In the preceding example, some simple testing data was populated into the Redis instance. After that, an RDB dump was created via the SAVE command.
We then take a closer look at what the RDB has unearthed with the binary editor bvi in Linux. All the content of the RDB file has been converted into hex by bvi. By looking up the first five hex numbers (52 45 44 49 53) one by one in an ASCII table at RapidTables (https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html), we can tell that the first characters are REDIS:

The following four characters behind the magic string are 30 30 30 38, which indicate that the RDB format version ...
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