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Pause and restart Estuary connectors by disabling and re-enabling shards via flowctl. Use when temporarily stopping a connector, performing source/destination maintenance, or forcing a fresh restart to clear transient errors or load updated configs immediately. Use when user says "pause connector", "stop connector", "restart connector", "disable connector", "enable connector", "re-enable task", "disable shards", "stop my capture", "stop my materialization", "disable my materialization…
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# Restart a Connector — Disable and Re-enable via flowctl
Temporarily pause a capture or materialization by disabling its shards, then re-enable it. The connector resumes from its last checkpoint — no data is lost. Works for both captures and materializations.
## Prerequisites
```bash
flowctl auth login
```
## Step 1: Pull the current spec
```bash
flowctl catalog pull-specs --name <task-name>
```
This creates a `flow.yaml` and a directory with the task's YAML spec.
## Step 2: Disable the connector
Edit the task's YAML file (under `<task-name>/flow.yaml`) and add a `shards` block at the same level as `endpoint` and `bindings`:
```yaml
captures:
acmeCo/source-postgres:
endpoint:
connector:
image: ghcr.io/estuary/source-postgres:v1
config: ...
bindings:
- resource: ...
target: ...
# Add this block to disable:
shards:
disable: true
# To re-enable: remove the shards block and any expectPubId line
```
If a `shards` section already exists, just add `disable: true` to it.
Publish to apply:
```bash
flowctl catalog publish --source flow.yaml --auto-approve
```
Confirm it's disabled:
```bash
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How to install
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Source
estuary/agent-skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
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