When you start Designer, you can specify various command-line parameters, such as its start mode, Infobase directory, user directory, and so on.

Administrators can use the batch mode to perform the following actions:

• Dump or restore Infobases
• Save configurations to files or load them from files
• Dump configurations to files or restore them from files
• Update configuration databases (can be performed for supported configurations)
• Perform syntax checks
• Verify and repair Infobases (with a full range of parameters)
• Reduce event log size
• Check configurations
• and more

Alternatively, the startup options can be provided in an external file, which is then specified as a command-line parameter.

Once the actions specified in the command-line parameters are complete, Designer is closed.

The batch mode automates Infobase service operations with scheduled execution of batch files.

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