Use this task to create a backup of an OpenEdge database.

Properties

Property Required? Description Example Default value
source Yes

Path to the database where the .db file is located.

Can be relative or absolute. May or may not include the .db file extension.

 source="path" None
target Yes

Path of the backup file for the database.

Can be absolute or relative.

 target="path" None
overwrite No Whether to replace if the backup file exists overwrite=true false
online No

Indicates the database must be online or not when doing a backup.

If not set, the proutil -C holder is used to detect if the database is up.

Leave this out if you want the task to auto detect if this option should be used.

 online=true Auto
incremental No Performs an incremental backup. incremental=true false

Sample code snippet

The following code snippet is an example using BackupDB:
task createDBBackup(type: BackupDB){
    source = "db/sports2020/sports2020.db"
    target = "${buildDir}/dist/sports2020.bck"
    overwrite = true
}