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The recitaldump command is used to perform machine independent backups of either a database or a directory tree. You use \the recitalrestore command to restore the backup onto another machine. It takes the following arguments.

Note: dbdump must be run as root. For systems with a hidden root account, please precede commands with ’sudo’.

help

Using the help or -h argument will display a list of arguments for all the services.

recitaldump help

-D database

This argument is used to specify the name of a database to create the dump from.

dbdump -D southwind

-d directory

This argument is used to specify the name of a directory create the dump from. If there is a file called _reindex.prg located in the parent directory this file will used to recreate single index files on the restored files. You must add the Recital script commands used to rebuild the index files in this file. Multiple tag index files are handled automatically

recitaldump -d /data/application

-r

This argument is used in conjunction with the -d option to recursively process subdirectories.

dbdump -d /data/application -r

-o outfile

Specify the output backup file name. When you need to restore this file use the dbrestore command. For example to create a backup file of the southwind database called accountants.tar.gz;

dbdump -D southwind -o accountants

-t

This argument is used to add a time stamp to output file name. For example if today was the 2nd of November 2009 at 03:27pm the following command would create a file called southwind-20091102-1527.tar.gz from backing up the southwind database.

dbdump -D southwind -t