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Copy to Test ???

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Ken Carley

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4/13/2010 8:19 PM

Okay, so we have been up and running on LBI for a little while now and things seem stable. Of course we don't want to just leave it that way, so we are looking into what needs to be done to make a Copy of PROD in TEST. We started looking at creating the backoffice jobs and republishing all the Crystal reports too and that just seems silly.

Does anyone have a repeatable process that we should follow or did I miss something in the Lawson knowledgebase..?

Thanks for your help/time,
Ken

Matthew Nye

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4/14/2010 2:20 PM

Theres really only two ways to do this and they both have their detractors.

The first is to use Solutions Packs. You can create one for each of the applications and then import them into the new environment. The problems here are most of the links in youre dashboards or links in your reports and notifications will be dead and require updates.

The second is the preferred method but requires a bit more technical aptitude. Once youve installed your second environment, copy the LBI databases from the source LBI system and restore it over the new LBI instance database. Youll need to go in and update all the services URLs and update links as well however you will get a much more complete migration as the first option doesnt bring over security settings.

hth
Matt

Ken Carley

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4/14/2010 3:10 PM

Matt - Thank you, I will bring this second method to the attention of our Host. Has anyone had success in having Velocity complete this task?

Matthew Nye

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4/14/2010 3:21 PM

Yes, Ive done this with Velocity for a couple of their clients so they should be comfortable performing this.