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title: "When we use Salesforce Data Loader?"  
description: "When we use Salesforce Data Loader?"  
author: "Josephine Isley"  
published: 2018-02-07  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34216/when-we-use-salesforce-data-loader  
category: "salesforce"  
tags: ["salesforce", "dataloader"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# When we use Salesforce Data Loader?

When we use [Salesforce](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82645/what-you-need-to-know-to-get-started-on-salesforce-field-service) [Data](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84027/what-does-google-do-with-your-data) [Loader](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156609/create-loader-with-bootstrap)?

## Answers

### Answer by Tarun Gautam

## We are listed some of the points for when we use the Salesforce Data Loader:

- The Data Loader is supported for loads of up to 5 million records, but if you have a need to load more than 5 million records, then we especially recommend you to work with a Salesforce partner or for easy way is to visit the AppExchange zone for a suitable partner product.

- You need to load into an object that is not yet supported by the import wizards.

- You want to schedule regular data loads, such as nightly imports.

- You want to export your data for backup purposes.

- Salesforce Data Loader is a very important tool. For example, we have a lot of records and needs to load 50,000 to 5,000,000 records then we will use the Data Loader tool.


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