Guralp Systems CMG-DCM build <10,000 - Manual (Page 49)

Acquisition Modules and Platinum Firmware Platinum Overview
will delete a backup performed at 11:31 UTC on the 12 th of April, 2013 on a
system called “MyEAM”.
It is possible to examine the comments embedded in a manually saved
configuration backup file using the command
config-backup --examine path-to-file
or, in abbreviated form,
config-backup -x path-to-file
Either of the commands will display the comments which were entered by the
user (in the “Description” field of the web interface or using ­­comment from
the command line) when the backup was created.
4.4.8 Transferring backups between systems
If the command-line program, config­backup, is invoked in save or restore
mode without a filename argument, standard input or standard output is
used, as appropriate. This allows the command to be used in pipe-lines, as in
the following examples.
A configuration file can be created on a Platinum system and immediately
copied to a linux PC (without being saved on the Platinum system) with a
single command:
ssh root@platinum config-backup --backup > local.backup
where platinum is the hostname of the CMG-EAM or other Platinum system.
Likewise, the configuration of a running system can be copied to another with
commands like:
(from a Linux PC):
ssh root@platinum1 config-backup --backup | \
ssh root@platinum2 config-backup --restore --no-network
(from the target system):
ssh root@source config-backup -b | config-backup -rN
where source is the hostname of the system to be cloned. The argument ­N
prevents the network configuration on the target machine from being
over-written.
4.4.9 Technical details
Stored configuration backups are gzipped tar volumes containing all
configuration files from the host system. They are each around 33 kilobytes
in size.
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