Problem

Solution

1. The first Step is to edit your build.xml file and call the built-in property TStamp to initialize the value. For example, after the last property tag in your build.xml, add the following line:

<tstamp/>

2. Next, add an org nickname, which will be a prefix on all the directories that are created. For this example, I use QA, but you could use anything you like:

<property name="orgNickName" value='QA'/>

3. Combine the previous two values to get the directory name. For example, I used the variable <em>mydir</em> to store this, which I then call from the task named <em>dump</em>:

<property name="mydir" value='${orgNickName}-${DSTAMP}'/>

4. The final step is to add the <em>dump</em> task to the build xml file:

 <target name="dump">
            <echo> mydir = ${mydir}</echo>
        <mkdir dir="${mydir}"/>
        <sf:retrieve 
                username="${sf.username}" 
                password="${sf.password}" 
                serverurl="${sf.serverurl}" 
                retrieveTarget="${mydir}"  
                unpackaged="unpackaged-all.xml" 
                pollWaitMillis="10000" 
                maxPoll="20"/>
 </target>

As you can see, I print the newly created directory name to the screen just as a reference. This is a left over debug statement that I kept in to remind me what day it was.

5. And finally, run the command <strong><em>ant dump</em></strong>

I have never scheduled this from a cron job, but consider this if you want to automate this task.