Recitaldump

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’.

--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 the 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