Cancelling a Bulk Export
If you need to cancel an export job early for any reason, you may do so either:
Note that an export job can only be cancelled while it is still running. Once an export job terminates for any reason, the cancel option is no longer available.
Via a Web Browser
Any in-progress export can be cancelled from the Bulk Exports page by selecting the "Cancel Export" option in the overflow menu on the export job line.
Cancelling an export job may take some time depending upon the size of the export job. This is primarily because the export process is highly parallelized and uses multiple concurrent processes that coordinate via a task scheduling system.
After selecting "Cancel Export", the export job will first enter the "Cancelling" state, which indicates the system is currently working to cancel all pending tasks and finish all in-progress tasks that are part of the export job.
After all tasks are either completed or cancelled and all further processing is terminated, the export job will transition to the "Cancelled" state.
Via the new (BETA) CLI
To cancel an export via the new (BETA) CLI, use the following command:
Where <id> is replaced with the ID of the export job to be cancelled. If you do not know the export job ID, see the article locating the export job ID.
For more information, see the new CLI documentation for export cancel.