Client import Export

[former_member327748]

Hi Experts

I have a requirement. We have a Preproduction system with 3 clients (400/401/402) and there is now request to refresh one of the client (400)in preproduction system from production client and rest of the clients(401/402) in preproduction system should remain unchanged.

Due to large database we want to do restore the preproduction system from the backup which means while doing the restore from backup client 401 and 402 will be wiped out.

We are thinking about following solution to avoid this problem.

Step 1 :Do a client export (401/402) before the restore from backup.

Step 2 :Do a restore from the backup of pre production system which should copy the production client 400 to preproduction client 400

Step 3: Create client 401 and 402 after the restore in pre-production client.

Step 4: Do a client import from the step 1 (client 401 adn 402)

My question is if we perform the above steps while doing the client import after the restore will this bring back the old cross client ABAP dictionary objects and cross client customizing from the export before the restore?

Grateful any feedback on this

PS

[AbhishekGupta1]

Hi Pravin,

Answer to your question is "no"

Client export will be having only client specific data hence you can not have old cross client objects and customization s if you restoring production backup and importing old client data.

As suggested earlier, try to do remote client copy or export/import of your client 400.

If you feel you are having issues with sap tools for client copy, you can check option for EPI-USE tool where you can do selective client copy.