Does UNLOAD command removes or deletes data from redshift?

Question

I want to copy table data from redshift to S3; but keep original data in redshift. I know there is UNLOAD command for that purpose. But I am not sure if it deletes/removes data from original table. Does somebody have solution?

Answer 1

Unload does not delete or remove data from the original table. See the explicit truncate in the COPY reload example