Request Clone... What do I get for my 10 cents?

his is a old post I had on my earlier blog. I thought I might as well bring it up here to try to clear out how the cloning works.

 First let's just talk about how the cloning works in a light version:

1.  You request the cloning with the System clone->Request Clone. Remember that the data you are cloning are from last night backup. So if you just changed something, you have to set the clone date for tomorrow instead if you want your last changes to be cloned.
2. Now it looks at the "Preserve data" table and see what data on the target it should save. The data is stored somewhere else(magically) and will be restored after the clone
3. Copies over everything to the target. If the table is in the "exclude tables" it only copies over an empty table.
4. Then it copies over the "preserved data" that was stored before the copy.
5. Runs the post-clone cleanup scripts.

Want to read the whole story?

Head over to the community blog here: Request Clone... What do I get for my 10 cents?

//G?ran