# Name

afp_voluuid.conf — Configuration file used by afpd to specify UUID for AFP volumes

# Description

**afp_voluuid.conf** is the configuration file used by **afpd** to store
UUID of all AFP volumes. The configuration lines are composed like:

    "volume-name" "uuid-string"

The first field is the volume name. Volume names must be quoted if they
contain spaces. The second field is the 36 character hexadecimal ASCII
string representation of a UUID.

All leading spaces and tabs are ignored. Blank lines are ignored. The
lines prefixed with \# are ignored. Any illegal lines are ignored.

This UUID is advertised by Zeroconf in order to provide robust
disambiguation of Time Machine volumes.

It is also used by the MySQL and SQLite CNID backends as the name
of the database table storing the CNID information for the volume.

> ***NOTE:*** This file should not be thoughtlessly edited or copied onto another
server.
>
> If you want to set a particular UUID for your volume, use the option
"volume uuid =" in afp.conf. In this case, afp_voluuid.conf is not used.

# Examples

## Example: afp_voluuid.conf with three volumes

    # This is a comment.
    "Backup for John Smith" 1573974F-0ABD-69CC-C40A-8519B681A0E1
    "bob" 39A487F4-55AA-8240-E584-69AA01800FE9
    mary 6331E2D1-446C-B68C-3066-D685AADBE911

# See also

afpd(8), afp.conf(5), avahi-daemon(8), mDNSResponder(8)

# Author

[Contributors to the Netatalk Project](https://netatalk.io/contributors)
