Github user nreich commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/753 @jinmeiliao Region is still required, so this would still not work (there is a test in my commit that confirms this): gfsh> export data --member=abc --dir=xxx Your observation about --dir being able to implicitly mean --parallel is correct. When I opened this up to the community to discuss, my read of the conversation was that since non-parallel export/import can work with a directory, it would be better to have it available to both. In addition, while we have not added the ability yet to export all regions at once, that is possible to do and could be added as a feature and would require a directory to be provided instead of a file, for both parallel and non-parallel export. How to implement the options was definitely an area of mixed opinions on multiple options, so still an area worth discussing to make sure we get to the best solution.
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