Force.com Migration Tool Guide

Force.com Migration Tool
Installing the Force.com Migration Tool
Using the Force.com Migration Tool
Entering Salesforce Connection Information
Constructing a Project Manifest
Creating Retrieve Targets
Retrieving Metadata from a Salesforce Organization
Editing Metadata
Deleting Files from an Organization
Deploying Changes to a Salesforce Org
Checking the Status of a Task
Common Migration Issues
Glossary
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Retrieving Metadata from a Salesforce Organization

To retrieve Force.com components:
  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Run Ant by specifying a target name in build.xml. If this is the first time you are running Ant, use ant retrieveUnpackaged to retrieve unpackaged components specified in package.xml.
  • The sample build.xml contains a number of useful targets for various retrieve() and deploy() options that you can modify or use as is. To see a list of all of your named targets in build.xml, enter ant -p at the command line.
  • Metadata API can deploy and retrieve up to 10,000 files or 400 MB at one time. If you are working with a large number of components, you should use the listMetadata target to identify the subset of files that you want to retrieve, or you should retrieve batches of components using the Retrieving Components in Bulk.

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