expdata.1

expdata exports Hardware Management Console (HMC) configuration data to a file. The exported data includes HMC user ID data, HMC task role and managed resource role data, call-home data, and managed system IP addresses.

-f

The name of the file where the HMC configuration data is to be written. If file is not fully qualified, file will be written to the /dump/expdata directory on the HMC.

If file already exists, this command will fail unless the --force option is specified.

To export the data to removable media, the media must be present in the removable media device and the device must be mounted with the mount command before this command is issued. The lsmediadev command can be used to display all of the removable media devices on the HMC.

--force

This option allows the specified file to be overwritten if it already exists.

--help

Display the help text for this command and exit.

Export HMC configuration data to a file called cfgdata on a USB flash memory device (the USB flash memory device must already be connected to the HMC):

mount /media/sdb1

expdata -f /media/sdb1/cfgdata

Export HMC configuration data to a file called hmcdata (the file will be written to the /dump/expdata directory on the HMC). The file hmcdata will be overwritten if it already exists:

expdata -f hmcdata --force

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