stop-task.md

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Stop a Data Replication Task	Learn how to stop a data replication task.

Stop a Data Replication Task

You can use the stop-task command to stop a data replication task. For differences between stop-task and pause-task, refer to Pause a Data Replication Task.

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help stop-task

stop a specified task

Usage:
 dmctl stop-task [-s source ...] <task-name> [flags]

Flags:
 -h, --help   help for stop-task

Global Flags:
 -s, --source strings   MySQL Source ID

Usage example

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stop-task [-s "mysql-replica-01"]  task-name

Flags description

• -s: (Optional) Specifies the MySQL source where the subtasks of the replication task (that you want to stop) run. If it is set, only subtasks on the specified MySQL source are stopped.
• task-name: (Required) Specifies the task name.

Returned results

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stop-task test

{
    "op": "Stop",
    "result": true,
    "msg": "",
    "sources": [
        {
            "result": true,
            "msg": "",
            "source": "mysql-replica-01",
            "worker": "worker1"
        }
    ]
}