[GNC] Duplicating Account

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 10/31/2024 10:13 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the result after the experiment or experiment with the copy of the file and then overwrite original if results looks good.
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ABSOLUTELY ---- Never do testing/experimentation using your"prod" data. 
Instead always make a copy and test using that. I strongly suggest you 
use "test" somewhere in the name of this copy (file) so that no chance 
you would ever make a mistake whether you were working"test" or "prod". 
We who did this for a living usually had separate "test"n and "prod" 
logins (logged in "test", while we might be able to read "prod" data, no 
write access)

<< most development team members wouldn't even have a "prod" log in. 
There would be a "production team" whose members would have one. But a 
few of us development team members did have a "prod" log in for 
emergency use; say after hours and no production team members present to 
submit prod jobs for us. Like its the middle of the night and the 
standby programmers on duty are stumped and have called one of in to help >>

Michael D Novack