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Exports a copy of all or a subset of documents from Google Cloud
Firestore to another storage system, such as Google Cloud Storage.
Recent updates to documents may not be reflected in the export. The
export occurs in the background and its progress can be monitored and
managed via the Operation resource that is created. The output of an
export may only be used once the associated operation is done. If an
export operation is cancelled before completion it may leave partial
data behind in Google Cloud Storage.
This method waits—the workflow execution is paused—until the operation is
complete, fails, or times out. The default timeout value is 1800 seconds (30
minutes) and can be changed to a maximum value of 31536000 seconds (one year)
for long-running operations using the connector_params field. See the
Connectors reference.
The connector uses polling to monitor the long-running operation, which might
generate additional billable steps. For more information about retries and
long-running operations, refer to Understand connectors.
The polling policy for the long-running operation can be configured. To set the
connector-specific parameters (connector_params), refer to
Invoke a connector call.
Arguments
Parameters
name
string
Required. Database to export. Should be of the form: projects/{project_id}/databases/{database_id}.
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