userbackup (back up users)

Backs up messaging users and groups on the IBM® MQ Appliance to a file.

Purpose

You can use the userbackup command to create a back up file containing the details for messaging users and groups that have been defined on the IBM MQ Appliance.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram userbackup -f file

Parameters

-f filename
Specifies the file that the messaging users and groups are backed up to. The file is written to the mqbackup: location on the IBM MQ Appliance. If you do not specify a file name, the back up is written to a file named userbackup-date-time, for example, userbackup-20150219-132655.
Note: You should take appropriate security precautions when handling the backup file.

Examples

  • The following command backs up users and groups to the file backup_15115: 
    userbackup -f backup_15115