Bill (and Will), As I stated I have done the directory copy many times with great success. It is not that difficult, but you have to be CAREFUL. See my earlier posts for some caveats to the process. As to the size of the files, Will has a point, but disk space is cheap. Also, if you are testing code having a full copy of the production data will allow you to better test your changes without having to recreate lots of master file data.
At unix the process to copy an account located at /software/production to a sandbox account would be something like: Cp -R /software/production /software/sandbox You would then create a new UV account and point it at this new directory. I will repeat three major items to look out for in this process. 1) files with indexes as the index pointer is in the file header 2) Q-pointers and remote file pointers (F pointers with full paths to the file) as they will like still be pointing at the live account 3) Globally cataloged programs. If your 'sandbox' account is on the same box as the production account you should NEVER globally catalog from within your sandbox area. This will make your changes active everywhere which is probably not what you intended. <snip> > I think you might even be able to just copy the whole directory, but > I've > never actually done it that way myself. In general, for a test account > you > don't really need files with a modulo of a hundred thousand and its > pointless to > create them and then have to DELETE-FILE and CREATE-FILE fifty times ... > in > my opinion. > Creating a sandbox account isn't real easy. You should have saved the > headaches and just hired me ;) > Will Johnson > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Rich Taylor | Senior Programmer/Analyst| VERTIS 250 W. Pratt Street | Baltimore, MD 21201 P 410.361.8688 | F 410.528.0319 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.vertisinc.com Vertis is the premier provider of targeted advertising, media, and marketing services that drive consumers to marketers more effectively. "The more they complicate the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain" - Montgomery Scott NCC-1701 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
