CFETOOLIMPORT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation CFETOOLIMPORT(1)
NAME
cfetool import - import the contents of a database from XML format
SYNOPSIS
cfetool import name --file|-f filename [--path|-p directory name]
[--daily|-d] [--weekly|-w] [--yearly|-y] [--verbose|-v] [--help|-h]
DESCRIPTION
Creates a new database from it's XML representation, in the format cre-
ated by rrdtool dump.
The -d, -w, and -y options specify which databases to create and look
for in the dump, and may be combined. If they are all ommitted, the
default is to only import the weekly database.
OPTIONS
--file|-f filename
Specifies the XML file to restore.
--path|-p
The directory in which to create the new database folder. If this
argument is not provided, the current working directory will be
used.
--daily|-d
Create a database for recording daily patterns.
--weekly|-w
Create a database for recording weekly patterns.
--yearly|-y
Create a database for recording yearly patterns.
--verbose|-v
Print details of the command's execution to the standard output
stream.
--help|-h
Print a short help message and then exit.
EXAMPLE
% cfetool import temperature_copy --path /my/path --file ./temperature.xml
Create a new weekly database, "temperature_copy", in the "/my/path"
directory, and import it's contents from the file "temperature.xml" in
the current working directory.
AUTHORS
The code and documentation were contributed by Stanford Linear Acceler-
ator Center, a department of Stanford University. This documentation
was written by
Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net> and
Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu>
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
Copyright 2004 Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu> and
Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net>
All rights reserved.
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