Overview

This document describes the PAR file format, and the PAR directory structure for Portal Server. The PAR file format is the file structure that is used by the psadmin import/export command to store portal data. The PAR directory structure is the directory structure from where a PAR file can be generated using the psadmin create-par command. The PAR directory structure describes the file system directories that is similar to the PAR file format with additional mapping properties file.

There are two ways to generate a PAR file:

• Extract portal data from a system running Portal using the psadmin export command

• Extract portal data from a file system directory structure using the psadmin create-par command