psadmin export

Description

Exports the portal desktop, including the provider and channels, data.

Syntax

Long Format

psadmin export --adminuser uid --passwordfile password-filename [--files-only] --portal portal-name [--dp-only] --type type [--dn dn] [--global] [--exportfile export_file_list] [--debug] par-filename

Short Format

psadmin export -u uid -f password-filename [--files-only] -p portal-name [--dp-only] -t type [-d dn] [-g] [-x export_file_list] par-filename

Options

The following options are required:

[--adminuser | -u] uid

Specifies the administrator's distinguished name (DN) or user ID (uid). Enclose value in double quotation marks if it includes spaces.

[--passwordfile | -f] password-filename

Specifies administrator's password in the password file.

[--portal | -p] portal-name

Specifies the portal name.

[--type | -t] type

Specifies the type of data to be exported. Supports two types: desktop and provider. Note that the provider type must be used for channel as well as provider data.

The following options are optional:

--files-only

Specifies to back up the desktop file system data only. Default is off.

--debug

This flag is used for debugging purpose only, set this flag to true to see exceptions that caused the error. Default is off.

--dp-only

Specifies to export the display profile data only. Default is off.

--export | -x export_file_list

Specifies a comma separated list of export files. Applicable only if type is provider which is used for exporting provider and/or channels data as specified in the export file. Each export file is a text file (.txt), corresponds to an entry (provider, channel, or provider/channel combination) in the .par file, and specifies the data to be inserted into the specified .par file. See PAR Export File Format chapter in the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Technical reference guide for more information.

--dn | -d dn

Specifies the distinguished node from where data is to be exported. Applicable only if type is provider. This option is mutually exclusive to --global.

--global | -g

Specifies the global level node to access the display profile document. Applicable only if type is provider. This option is mutually exclusive to --dn.

Operands

The following operand is supported:

par-filename

Specifies the exported archive file in the local machine. If full path is given, the file will be created in that path; otherwise, the file will be created in the current directory. The archive file must use extension .par.

Example

Example 4–7 psadmin export

psadmin export -u amadmin --passwordfile /tmp/passwd -t desktop desktop.par

psadmin export -u amadmin --passwordfile /tmp/passwd -t provider -d "ou=DeveloperSample,dc=someplace,dc=siroe,dc=com" -x expfile1.txt,expfile2.txt desktop.par

psadmin export -u admin-user -f password -p portal1 -t desktop --files-only files.par

In the above example, the command exports the file system data.

psadmin export -u admin-user -f password -p portal1 -t desktop --dp-only dp.par

In the above example, the command exports the display profile from all organizations.

psadmin export -u admin-user -f password -p portal1 -t desktop all.par

In the above example, the command exports both the file system data and the display profiles from all organizations.