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How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

heightsnj — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:17:18 GMT

There is a dar file in this example. Can somebody here please tell me how to open DAR file for Windows? I search a lot of websites, could not find a right tool. Thanks!

http://community.netapp.com/t5/OnCommand-Storage-Management-Software-Articles-and-Resources/Workflow-Example-Vol-move-c-mode/ta-p/85982

Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

ekashpureff — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:42:26 GMT

Heights -

Use WFA to import it into WFA.

(Under Administratio > Import)

See the docs here:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2597424/html/GUID-6E4212DC-A5AF-407D-980D-E3475E7B216E.html

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

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Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

heightsnj — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:34:30 GMT

ekashpureff,

Following the instruction, when I import the downloaded DAR file, I am getting "failed to read pack contents from imported DAR".

What went wrong? I am using WFA 4.0 in c-mode. Could it be too new?

Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

sivakumar_sekar — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 06:44:18 GMT

Heights -

Could you please share the .dar file and failure message? So that I can look into the cause of failure ?

Importing of a .dar file should work across any version of WFA and there is no requirement that it always has to be higher.

Regards,

Shiva

Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

sinhaa — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:58:14 GMT

@heightsnj

You are trying to import the .zip file. The Workflow_Vol_Move___c_mode.dar.zip ‏12 KB is a .zip file. right click on it and do extract. It will create a file named Workflow_Vol_Move___c_mode.dar which is now ready to be imported in a WFA server.

Now before importing you need to look at a few things.

1. What is your existing WFA version. This dar was created with a very old WFA version 1.1.0.53.2. This dar hence can ONLY be imported on a WFA2.2 and below. If your WFA version is higher, then you need to have an intermediate WFA 2.2 and then import this dar on it. Afterwards export the dar from this WFA to a new updated dar. Now this updated dar can be imported in your existing WFA. But this is a tedious process.

2. If you let us know your WFA version, I can give you the dar file which can be imported directly. So that saves you a lot of effort.

sinhaa

Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

heightsnj — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:00:19 GMT

As I said, I am using WFA 4.0, so, it explained why I could not import due to DAR file proceduced by WFA 1.1 which is too old to import to WFA 4.0.

Any newer DAR files out there that I can import to my WFA 4.0 without intermediate WFA 2.2?

Thanks All!

Re: How to open DAR file for this WFA Example?

ekashpureff — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:09:13 GMT

Heights -

See the Storage Automation Store:

https://automationstore.netapp.com/home.shtml

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,