How the Force.com tool helps developers and DevOps

The Force.com Migration Tool provides developers with a way to easily perform operations on their sandbox, such as retrieving, deploying, and deleting metadata. Using the Force.com Migration Tool, developers can deploy code to different sandboxes and switch between workspaces on Eclipse. The Migration Tool is easy to set up on developers' machines, and it provides a secure way to communicate with your Salesforce organization.

We can face issues if something goes wrong with deployments; having automated daily backup is very important in such scenarios. The Force.com Migration Tool provides a command-line way to retrieve the code and configuration from a Salesforce sandbox, so DevOps or admins ...

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