2. • Use the replication task to replicate data to a target. You might
replicate data to back up the data or perform offline reporting.
• You can replicate data in Salesforce objects or database tables to
databases or flat files. You can configure a task to replicate all rows of
a source object each time the task runs or to only replicate the rows
that changed since the last time the task was run.
• You can use replication task to reset target tables and create target
tables.
3. Replication task sources
• You can use Salesforce and database sources in replicationtasks. You
can use database tables, aliases, and views as sources.
• Replication task targets
• You can replicate source data to database and flat file targets. The
type of target affects how the replication replicates data.
4. • Resetting a target table
• You can reset the relational target tables included in
a replication task.
• On the Explore page, navigate to the replication task.
• In the row that contains the task, click Actions and select Reset Target
5. • Replicate data to a flat file target
• When you run a replication task for a flat file target for the first time,
the replication task creates the flat files. The replication task then
stores the files in the specified directory and writes the replicated
data to the files. During subsequent runs, the replication task
truncates the file and loads the data.
• When the replication task includes flat file targets with multibyte data
on Linux, the default locale must be UTF-8.
