mc ilm export

The following command exports the lifecycle management configuration of the mydata bucket on the myminio deployment to the mydata-lifecycle-config.json file:

mc ilm export myminio/mydata > mydata-lifecycle-config.json

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] ilm export ALIAS > STDOUT

• Brackets [] indicate optional parameters.
• Parameters sharing a line are mutually dependent.
• Parameters separated using the pipe | operator are mutually exclusive.

Copy the example to a text editor and modify as-needed before running the command in the terminal/shell.

The following command exports the bucket lifecycle management configuration to the bucket-lifecycle.json file:

mc ilm export myminio/mybucket > bucket-lifecycle.json

mc ilm export ALIAS > file.json

• Replace ALIAS with the alias of the MinIO deployment and the bucket for which to export object lifecycle management rules:

  myminio/mydata

• Replace file.json with the name of the file to which to export the lifecycle management rules.