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Creating an new enivronment as copy of Production and update-it daily with production database.

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Hello all,

I want to create an enivronment as a copy of Production and i want this environment to be update-ed daily from production with production database.

Can anyone help me to do that and what steps should i follow?

Thank u in advance.

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    JAngle Profile Picture
    89 on at
    RE: Creating an new enivronment as copy of Production and update-it daily with production database.

    What’s the reason for needing it out of interest? Database or company this type of idea could work. You could use standard posting actions once the data is in the other database: joshanglesea.wordpress.com/.../

  • Nertila Tila12 Profile Picture
    85 on at
    RE: Creating an new enivronment as copy of Production and update-it daily with production database.

    Hi Yun,

    Thanks for answering. I have a question:

    Can the process that i have described on the post be implemented to create an extension with an API , smthg like this?

  • YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    82,745 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: Creating an new enivronment as copy of Production and update-it daily with production database.

    Hi, if you are on the On-Premises version, you can use export to a data file and import from a data file as in NAV. 

    Or you can use the SQL backup strategy to back up the database for the production environment every day.

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    If you are on the SaaS version, you can create a Sandbox environment by copying the Production environment.

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    If you don't want to run it manually every day, you can use the Admin API. But please note that the capacity of SaaS is not unlimited, personally do not recommend this.

    https://github.com/microsoft/BCTech/blob/master/samples/AdminCenterApi/PowerShell/Environments.ps1

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    Hope this will help,.

    ZHU

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    47,688 on at
    RE: Creating an new enivronment as copy of Production and update-it daily with production database.

    Are you referring to On-Prem or Saas?

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