[SalesForce] LIMIT EXCEEDED during ANT retrieve call

I am trying to retrieve metadata from Salesforce using ANT retrieve but it goes in timeout and I get the following error message when I restart it:

(Error: Retrieve failed: {"done":"true","errorMessage":"LIMIT_EXCEEDED: Too many files in retrieve call, limit is: 10000","errorStatusCode":"LIMIT_EXCEEDED","id":"***********","status":"Failed","success":"false","zipFile":null})

Looking online it seems to be that there is a retrieve call limit on objects in the environment.
Looking at the ID its an AsyncRequestStatus

My question is:
How can I find out which object(metadata component) has all this data which doesnt make it run?

Is there a work around to this? Do I need to split the items I wish to retrieve?

Best Answer

Your package.xml file probably includes a large number of wildcard entries and is executing against a large, heavily customized environment. The Id of the specific metadata entry that precipitated the failure is more or less irrelevant - it's just the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.

The cure for the issue is simply to break up your metadata operation. You'll need to perform your retrieve in smaller chunks by splitting up your package.xml into smaller units, each of which extracts fewer than 10,000 total files.

Without seeing what you're pulling, we cannot make any specific recommendations. One possible culprit could certainly be if you're pulling a very large number of reports and dashboards. That would be an easy element to pull out into a separate retrieve.

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[SalesForce] How to retrieve customFields on standard objects using Ant Migration Tool

As per the documentation the CustomField metadata type does not support wildcards sadly. You can access Custom Fields on Standard Objects by using the CustomObject metadata type as described here against specific Standard Objects. Then parse the .object file to build your destructiveChanges.xml file. Finally you can also use the sf:listMetadata task to download a list of all custom fields and then filter locally for Standard objects.

     <sf:listMetadata 
        username="${sf.username}"
        password="${sf.password}"
        metadataType="CustomField"/>

You might also be interested in an open-source undeploy Ant target published here, that wraps most of what i suspect your trying to develop up into a single Ant target. Sadly Salesforce do not yet give us a 'clean my org' task, so we build our own!

[SalesForce] Retrieve all records for a single CustomMetaDataType using ant

I don't think you would be able to do something like that. You either use a wild card character or mention the names of the individual elements directly.

Something like this.

<types>
    <members>State_Sales_Tax_1</members>
    <members>State_Sales_Tax_2</members>
    <members>State_Sales_Tax_3</members>
    <name>CustomMetadata</name>
</types>

(or)

<types>
    <members>*</members>
    <name>CustomMetadata</name>
</types>

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