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D365 CE restore dev environment from Prod not possible ?

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Posted on by vicky1234

Hi,

I have a request to restore Dev CE from Prod CE, however as per the IT team they say that their Dev environment is an unmanaged solution one and in case of restoration from Prod it will also restore the data and code both from prod environment.

I would like to understand if there is any alternative way like, take backup of the current solution in dev which are under development and then restore it with prod and then again import the WIP development solutions? OR there is no solution for this.

Also if this is true then how are the prod issues debugged in case it is complicated ?

Thanks,

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PerezAguiar Microsoft Employee on at

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Hey Vicky.

Indeed, if you perform a copy from production to another environment, you're overwriting such with whatever production has, including solutions (that now will be managed). I've seen a couple alternatives to this:

- Uninstall whatever managed solution you have, and then install the UnManaged one. However this might bring complications (if you're adding a custom entity that now has data, you'll loose such entity and therefore the data).

- The other approach is that you build a new solution that has as a prerequisite, the Managed one. So the custom entity/Fields will remain, and whatever change you need to do, will be on the "new" solution.

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vicky1234 66 on at

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hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply.

Its quite strange , because if there are any prod issues how are things debugged wrt data, we cannot create data or change data in prod while debugging , we need to restore data in dev.

Just a question , how much time does it take to restore data with the above 2 solutions considering that we have less customizations and data can be around 8GB as an example ?

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Adrian Begovich 1,027 Moderator on at

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Hi vicky1234,

By following a proper deployment process then you can eliminate the need to take customisations or data from production and copy into sandbox environments. By doing this you can reproduce production issues in your sandbox environments, fix them and deploy them into production after resolving them. I do not recommend taking customisations or data from your production environment and copying it into sandbox environments.

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