mc support inspect

SILO behavior: diagnostics run locally without SUBNET registration or automatic uploads. License info/unregister operate on local state; license update retains the explicit-file path. Online registration/renewal and uploads are disabled. Retained upstream syntax below does not enable those services. See mcli compatibility.

Description

The mc support inspect command collects the data and metadata associated to objects at the specified path.

MinIO assembles this data from each backend drive storing an erasure shard for each specified object. The command produces an encrypted zip file that includes all matching files with their respective host+drive+path.

Diagnostic output stays local; SUBNET online services are disabled. Compatibility flags do not enable uploads.

Wildcards

The command supports wildcard * pattern matching for prefixes or objects when using the Bash shell. For non-Bash shells, a message displays indicating that wildcard patterns are only supported in Bash.

mc support inspect 'ALIAS/bucket/path/**/xl.meta'

This command collects all xl.meta associated to objects at ALIAS/bucket/path/.

Examples

Download Metadata for an Object

You can download the metadata for an object. Metadata stores in an xl.meta binary file.

The following command downloads the xl.meta from mybucket/myobject on the minio1 deployment.

The file downloads from all drives as a zip archive file.

mc support inspect minio1/mybucket/myobject/xl.meta

The contents of the xl.meta file are not human readable. You can convert the contents of an xl.meta file to JSON format.

Download All Objects at a Prefix Recursively

The following command downloads all objects recursively found at a prefix.

mc support inspect 'minio1/mybucket/myobject/**'

Syntax

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] support inspect       \
                         [--legacy]   \
                         TARGET

Parameters

--legacy

mc-cmd

Optional

Skip a configured support_public.pem and request the older inspect format. Current SILO still encrypts this output and returns a generated decryption key. This flag does not enable uploads.

TARGET

mc-cmd

Required

The path to the location or object to inspect. The path should include the alias <alias> of the MinIO deployment and, if needed, the prefix and/or object name.

Global Flags

This command supports any of the global flags.