Do you want to update your devBox with the latest data from another environment? In this article, we are going to talk about how to apply a database back-up (.bak file) from LCS to your D365FO DevBox environment.
- Log in to your DevBox where you want to apply the DB back up
- Sign in to LCS https://lcs.dynamics.com
- Select the project that has the DB back-up you want to apply
- Click on the burger icon and choose Asset Library
- Click on "Database backup" then choose the database backup you want to download and click on it.
- The download will start for the backup file of type (.bak)
- I saved this file in my devBox in J drive, under a new folder called LCS backup
- Before proceeding, It's better to close Visual studio and stop the following services: DMF, Batch, Management reporter and SQL reporting services.
- Open "Microsoft SQL server management studio" and click connect
- Expand the "databases" node in object explorer, and choose AxDB
- Before applying the new DB backup, we can take a backup of the existing DB just in case. You can do that by right clicking on AxDB, selecting "Tasks" then "Back up"
- Click "Ok" (As you can see in the image below, Destination is Disk and the path to save the original DB backup is in J drive which you can change as you wish)
- Once the backup is finished, you'll get this message
- Now you can apply the new backup file (.bak) that you downloaded from LCS and restore it directly on AxDB.
Right click on AxDB and click Tasks - restore - Database- Under "Source" choose Device, then click on the three dots next to it
- Click on Add
- Choose the .bak file you download from LCS, then click Ok
- Click Ok
- As you can see, all fields are now filled, you can now click on options in the left pane
- In options, mark the following two fields as true: "Overwrite the existing database (With replace) and "close existing connections to destination database". Then click Ok.
- Under "Source" choose Device, then click on the three dots next to it
- You'll get a message now that the DB is restored successfully
- Open visual studio and synchronize the database
- After the sync finishes, you can now navigate to the tables to check if the data you want is now appearing
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