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You could attempt to invoke the serialization routines yourself and just write those blobs out to files of your choosing. This is how rosbag originally came about. In rospy this is trivial as its just a serialize() method on the message (though I am looking to move that). In roscpp, refer to:

http://ros.org/wiki/roscpp/Overview/MessagesSerializationAndAdaptingTypes

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