systemslab export context

Description	Export a SystemsLab context to a tar file.
Usage	systemslab export context [OPTIONS] <CONTEXT>

Description

The systemslab export context command exports a context to a tar file. This tar file can then be used with systemslab import context to import the context. This can be used to move entire contexts between SystemsLab servers.

TIP

systemslab export context is not able to generate a compressed tar file on its own. You can generate a compressed tar file by piping the output through a compressor like so

systemslab export context 018ec8ab-1cb6-70c8-3a29-6f41445ee0c4 | gzip -9 > context.tar.gz

Options

Option	Default	Description
<CONTEXT>		The ID of the context to be exported.
-o, --output	-	The path at which to produce the output tar file. Can be - to output to stdout.
-j, --parallel	1	Number of requests allowed to be made in parallel. Passing 0 will make this use the number of CPUs on the current machine.

Common Options

Option	Default	Description
--systemslab-url		The URL at which to access the systemslab server.
--color	auto	Controls when color is used in the output. Possible values are auto, always, and never.
--output-format	long	Output format to use when outputting messages. long will result output designed to be human-readable while short is short output meant to be used within scripts.

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
SYSTEMSLAB_URL	Specify the URL used to contact the SystemsLab server. Equivalent to --systemslab-url.