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StarDump CLI
Introduction
StarDump CLI is a command-line interface that unloads and reloads database data. It's found in C:\Program Files\Starcounter\StarDump.  
The data is unloaded into sqlite3 files that can be examined or modified with DB Browser for SQLite.
All examples on this page assume that you have C:\Program Files\Starcounter\StarDump as an environment variable.
The general format for the StarDump CLI looks like this:
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stardump [command] [options]
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There are two commands, unload and reload, and both of them have their own options.
Unload Database
The unload command takes a Starcounter database and creates a sqlite3 file with the data. Running stardump unload without any options will unload the default database to %TEMP%\stardump-<database>-<date>.sqlite3. To specify the unload further, these options can be used:
Name
Type
Default value
Description
-db, --database
string
default
Database name to unload
-f, --file
string
%TEMP%\stardump-<database>-<date>.sqlite3
Output file path with file name
-b, --buffersize
int
500
Number of rows in a single INSERToperation
-scp, --skipcolumnprefixes
string[]
__
Column prefixes to skip
-stp, --skiptableprefixes
string[]
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Table prefixes to skip
-st, --skiptables
string[]
​
Table names to skip
-ut, --unloadtables
string[]
​
Table names to unload
-V, --verbose
int
2
Verbose mode, higher number prints more [Error:0, Warning:1, Notice:2, Info:3, Debug:4]
The option values are case sensitive. Also,  unloadtablesdisables skiptableprefixes and unloadtables if they are used together. string[] values should be space or comma separated.
Example of unload:
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stardump unload --database default --file C:\Temp\default.sqlite3
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The targeted database can either be running or stopped when it's unloaded. If the database is running, StarDump creates a snapshot of the database when the unload starts so that no changes made during the unload are included. 
You can use stardump unload --help to get more information about the available options.
Reload Database
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The reload command takes a sqlite3 file and reloads it into a Starcounter database. The basic structure of a reload looks like this:
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stardump reload --database [DatabaseName] --file [FilePath]
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The --database and --file option always have to be specified. 
These are all options for the reload command:
Name
Type
Description
-db, --database
string
Database name to reload into
-f, --file
string
Path to sqlite3 file to reload
-fr, --forcereload
none
Force reload even if the database already contains data. The user has to take care of object ID uniqueness.
-offset, --insertobjectnooffset
long
ObjectNo offset in the target database
-reassign, --reassignobjectno
none
Sets the ObjectNo offset to the highestObjectNo in the target database -noschema, --skipschema
-noschema, --skipschema
none
If flag is set, then schema creation and validation will be skipped.   In --skipschema mode, StarDump reloads data of matching tables and columns between existing Starcounter database and reloading dump.
-V, --verbose
int
Verbose mode, higher number prints more [Error:0, Warning:1, Notice:2, Info:3, Debug:4]
None of these are have a default value except for --verbose which is set to 2.
If --forcereload is not used, the database should be dropped and created prior to reload to ensure that the database is empty:
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staradmin -d=default delete --force db
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staradmin -d=default new db DefaultUserHttpPort=8080
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stardump reload --database default --file C:\Temp\default.sqlite3
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You can use stardump reload--help to get more information about the available options.
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Contents
Introduction
Unload Database
Reload Database