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How to move the AxDB from LCS Development environment to another Development environment?

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Hi all, and as always thanks in advance.

Does anyone have any suggestions to correctly create a working backup of the SQL AxDB sitting in one LCS Development environment and import it into a separate LCS Development environment?

Moving of the actual file is fine, we have Azure Storage accounts for that and I use Azure Storage Explorer. It is more the backup and import process that I am struggling with as each time I try it seems to fail.

(For context we take the backup of the UAT DB and import it into the development environment then scrub all the sensative data. This is about a 8-16 hour process. So I would prefer to only have to do it once, and then use that scrubbed DB and import it into the two other development environments that we use.)

Thanks!

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  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
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    Hmm, so what's the problem? You surely can do the process once, backup the DB (to .bak) and restore this backup in other development environments.

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    303,247 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi Jamie,

    You mentioned that your process fails. Do you get error messages?

    Note that if you have taken a backup from the UAT you have to restore it in one environment. Then scrub the sensitive data. Or you can then again create a backup or start the scrub process on both environments. I don't know what exactly you need to scrub and what time it takes in your process. So, maybe two times scrubbing is quicker or again create a new backup and restore it on the second development environment. You can't alter the backup itself.

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