esacli backup

Description

The esacli backup command takes a backup of the configuration settings, detected problems, discovered systems to a file that can be used to restore an ESA configuration. This command generates a .backup file that can be used by the esacli restore command. This command displays a message - /root/esa.esabkp created successfully on successful completion.

Options

-f | --file file_name

Specifies the name of the archive file (.esabkp) to which the configuration settings are written. The file can specify either an absolute path or a path relative to the current working directory. The file cannot exist unless the replace option is specified.

-r | --replace ""

Specifies the file to which the configuration settings are written which might replace an existing file.

Exit status

• 0: The operation completed successfully.
• 1: IBM® Electronic Service Agent instance is not running.
• 10: An unsupported option was specified. Option: {option}.
• 14: A required option was not provided. Option: {option}.
• 18: An option was set more than once. Option: {option}.
• 19: An option value was not provided when required. Option: {option}.
• 20: An output file could not be created. Reason: {Reason}
• 59: The backup operation failed. Reason: {reason}.

Examples

• This example illustrates taking the backup of ESA configuration

  esacli backup -f esa.esabkp
  /root/esa.esabkp created successfully