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I am in the unenviable situation of taking over a TM1 project from a guy that has left our company. I have no formal TM1 training so I'm learning on the go.

On our server, we have 2 TM1 servers running - one for dev and one for prod. It seems that this guy did not keep things in synch - at all. So I want to copy prod to dev and start over. Can I just copy the contents of the prod server folder into the dev server and restart it? Or are there some pitfalls that I need to be aware of. There is no specific code referencing the servers in the app. I do know that.

You're pretty much correct in the assumption that you can copy and paste then restart.

Just make sure that you don't overwrite the tm1s.cfg file as that is what differentiates 2 instances on the same box.

If you are just doing a complete overhaul take the lot (with the exception of the above) but remember that will also copy over all the logon info from prod, if you want to avoid that due to only have certain people with access to dev then you just need to avoid copying the }client.... dims/cubs etc.


HTH

Hi,

Prepared steps:

1. Logon to Prd TM1 server through Architect and Save Data
2. Backup Dev data folder
3. Stop Dev TM1 server.
4. Delete all objects from the Dev Data folder
5. Copy the objects from the prod data folder and paste them into dev data folder
6. Copy/paste TM1S configuration file in Dev from the backup folder in step 2 to folder in step 5
7 Restart the dev TM1 server.
8. Logon to Dev TM1. (Will take 5-10 to reload data into memory)

Do the data validation and points in active report/slice reports and actions buttons and make sure it poiting to Dev tm1 servers and also check IT process are in sync with prd vs dev.

Regards,
Ravi

ravi wrote:8. Logon to Dev TM1. (Will take 5-10 to reload data into memory)

Ravi, I really like how you omitted the unit there, leaving it open for interpretation. This is rather smart, because depending on the model it can probably take anything between 5 nanoseconds and 10 days to load.