NAME

       lttng-save - Save LTTng recording session configurations

SYNOPSIS

       lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] save [--force] [--output-path=DIR]
             [--all | SESSION]

DESCRIPTION

       The lttng save command saves to files the configurations of:

       With the SESSION argument
           The recording session named SESSION.

       Without the SESSION argument
           Implicit --all option: all the recording sessions of the connected session daemon for
           your Unix user, or for all users if your Unix user is root, as listed in the output of
           lttng list (see lttng-list(1)).

           See the “Session daemon connection” section of lttng(1) to learn how a user
           application connects to a session daemon.

       See lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about recording sessions.

       Use the save command in conjunction with the lttng-load(1) command to save and restore the
       complete configurations of recording sessions.

       The save command does NOT save tracing data, only the recording session parameters,
       including the channel and recording event rule configurations.

       The default output directory path is $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions ($LTTNG_HOME defaults to
       $HOME). Override the default output directory path with the --output-path option. Each
       recording session configuration file is named SNAME.lttng, where SNAME is the original
       recording session name.

       By default, the save command does NOT overwrite existing recording session configuration
       files: the command fails. Allow the save command to overwrite existing recording session
       configuration files with the --force option.

       See the “EXAMPLES” section below for usage examples.

OPTIONS

       See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.

       -a, --all
           Save all the recording session configurations of your Unix user, or of all users if
           your Unix user is root, as listed in the output of lttng-list(1), instead of the
           current recording session or the recording session named SESSION.

       -f, --force
           Overwrite existing recording session configuration files when saving.

       -o DIR, --output-path=DIR
           Save recording session configuration files to the directory DIR instead of
           $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions ($LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME).

   Program information
       -h, --help
           Show help.

           This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this manual page. Override the
           manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.

       --list-options
           List available command options and quit.

EXIT STATUS

       0
           Success

       1
           Command error

       2
           Undefined command

       3
           Fatal error

       4
           Command warning (something went wrong during the command)

ENVIRONMENT

       LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
           Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is encountered.

       LTTNG_HOME
           Path to the LTTng home directory.

           Defaults to $HOME.

           Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a non-writable home directory.

       LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
           Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng command-line help (with
           lttng-help(1) or with the --help option) instead of /usr/bin/man.

       LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
           Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording session configuration XML
           schema.

       LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
           Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see lttng-sessiond(8)) to spawn from
           the lttng-create(1) command.

           The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment variable.

FILES

       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
           Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.

           This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current recording session
           between executions of lttng(1).  lttng-create(1) and lttng-set-session(1) set the
           current recording session.

       $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
           Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot modes.

           Override this path with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command.

       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
           Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.

       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
           Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording session configurations
           (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

       /etc/lttng/sessions
           Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session configurations (see
           lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

       Note
           $LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment variable.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1. Save all the recording session configurations to the default output directory.

               $ lttng save

       Example 2. Save a specific recording session configuration to a specific output directory.

           See the --output-path option.

               $ lttng save my-session --output-path=/path/to/sessions

       Example 3. Allow LTTng to overwrite existing recording session configuration files when
       saving.

           See the --force option.

               $ lttng save --force

RESOURCES

       •   LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>

       •   LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>

       •   LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org>

       •   Git repositories <https://git.lttng.org>

       •   GitHub organization <https://github.com/lttng>

       •   Continuous integration <https://ci.lttng.org/>

       •   Mailing list <https://lists.lttng.org/> for support and development: lttng-
           dev@lists.lttng.org

       •   IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net

COPYRIGHT

       This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.

       LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>. See the LICENSE
       <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file for details.

THANKS

       Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory
       <http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal for the LTTng journey.

       Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed
       bug reports and unusual test cases.

SEE ALSO

       lttng(1), lttng-load(1), lttng-concepts(7)