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Clone Command

Command for cloning Xata databases and external PostgreSQL databases

The clone command helps you create a copy of your Xata database or clone an external PostgreSQL database into Xata. It supports data anonymization and advanced configuration for complex migration scenarios.

Subcommands

start

Snapshot performs a snapshot of the configured source Postgres database into the configured target.

xata clone start [--source-url <url>] [--config <file>] [--log-level <level>] [--postgres-url <url>] [--profile] [--reset] [--tables <tables>] [--target <type>] [--target-url <url>] [--organization <id>] [--project <id>] [--branch <id>] [--validation-mode <mode>] [-h|--help]
  • --source-url: The source URL of the database to clone
  • --config: .env or .yaml config file to use with pgstream if any
  • --log-level: Log level for the application. One of trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic
  • --postgres-url: Source postgres database to perform the snapshot from
  • --profile: Whether to produce CPU and memory profile files, as well as exposing a /debug/pprof endpoint on localhost:6060
  • --reset: Whether to reset the target before snapshotting (only for postgres target)
  • --tables: List of tables to snapshot. If not specified, the schema public will be assumed. Wildcards are supported
  • --target: Target type. One of postgres, opensearch, elasticsearch, kafka
  • --target-url: Target URL
  • --organization: Organization ID (default: "")
  • --project: Project ID (default: "")
  • --branch: Branch ID (default: "")
  • --validation-mode: Anonymization validation mode, strict implies that all tables and columns should be specified (strict|relaxed|prompt, default: prompt)
  • -h, --help: Print help information and exit

config

Automatically configure the transforms for the clone command.

xata clone config [--source-url <url>] [--mode <mode>] [--validation-mode <mode>] [--organization <id>] [--project <id>] [--branch <id>] [-h|--help]
  • --source-url: The source URL of the database to clone
  • --mode: The assisting mode to help with the configuration generation (auto|prompt|web|ai, default: prompt)
  • --validation-mode: Anonymization validation mode, strict implies that all tables and columns should be specified (strict|relaxed|prompt, default: prompt)
  • --organization: Organization ID (default: "")
  • --project: Project ID (default: "")
  • --branch: Branch ID (default: "")
  • -h, --help: Print help information and exit

Global Flags

  • -h, --help - Print help information and exit
  • --json - Output in JSON format