st backup
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Backup specified authority to the specified folder.
st backup <authorityid> <backup-directory> [/overwrite]
<credentials>
[/REST | /SOAP]
[/parallel:<number>] [/verbose]
All the containers in the specified authority are backed up. You cannot use this command to backup individual containers or entities. The command creates following files in the backup folder:
- Authority.xml that stores the list of containers in the authority.
- One XML file (Container-<container-id>.xml) for each container in the authority. Each of the container XML files stores backup copies of all entities.
- If the container has blobs, those blobs are stored in a subfolder, (container-<container-id>-blobs).
Examples
Examples of the backup command are given below.
Example 1 Backup an authority
The following command backs up myauth authority to MyBackupFolder.
cmdPrompt>st backup myauth .\MyBackupFolder /host:data.database.windows.net /user:username