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 [contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib
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+Writes telemetry data to files on disk.
+
+Use the [OTLP JSON File receiver](../../receiver/otlpjsonfilereceiver/README.md) to read the data back into the collector (as long as the data was exported using OTLP JSON format).
+
 Exporter supports the following features：
 
 + Support for writing pipeline data to a file.