Friday, July 31, 2009

Tip #60 – AdsBackup Utility Options

The AdsBackup utility is a command line tool that ships with the Advantage Sever and is located in the server directory, C:\Program Files\Advantage 9.10\Server by default. This utility has several options which can be specified to customize how your backup or restore is performed. The basic command line is below.

adsbackup [options] password> <source> [file mask] <destination>

Below is a list of the most commonly used options.

  • -a  Prepare data for a differential backup
  • -d  Don't overwrite existing tables
  • -f  Perform a differential backup
  • -i  Include file list
  • -e  Exclude file list
  • -m  Backup metadata only
  • -p  Password
  • -r  Restore the data
  • -w  Table type map
  • -y  Username for dictionary connection (adssys if not specified)

All of the details about the adsbackup command line tool, along with information about a java version, is available in the help file.

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