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'''Note: recitaldump and recitalrestore must be run as root. For systems with a hidden root account, please precede the commands with ’sudo’.''' | '''Note: recitaldump and recitalrestore must be run as root. For systems with a hidden root account, please precede the commands with ’sudo’.''' | ||
| − | ==== help ==== | + | ==== --help ==== |
| − | Using the ''help'' or ''-h'' argument will display a list of arguments for all the services. | + | Using the ''--help'' or ''-h'' argument will display a list of arguments for all the services. |
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| − | recitaldump help | + | recitaldump --help |
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Revision as of 00:07, 2 December 2009
The recitaldump command is used to perform machine independent backups of either a database or a directory tree. The format of the backup file is machine independent and can be restored onto another machine with a different architecture e.g. backup on aix and restore on linux. You use the recitalrestore command to restore the backup onto another machine.
The recitaldump command takes the following arguments.
Note: recitaldump and recitalrestore must be run as root. For systems with a hidden root account, please precede the commands with ’sudo’.
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--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 backup.
recitaldump -D southwind-d directory
This argument is used to specify the name of a directory to backup. If there is a file called _reindex.prg located in the directory this file will be executed to recreate single index files when the backup is restored on a target system. You should add the Recital script commands used to rebuild the index files into 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.
recitaldump -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;
recitaldump -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.
recitaldump -D southwind -t
