Replicating a Project

Administrator User Guide

Project Administration : Project Options : Replicating a Project

The Project > Replicate options enable you to replicate the whole project, including all the data, or just the structure of the project.

The Project Data option copies the current project to a new project. Before you use this option, you must create the project directories and set the environment variables for the copied project. Then enter the new project code on the Replicate Project form.

Note:

A project must not be replicated outside AVEVA E3D™ by copying the whole of the Project directory to another Project directory. This is because information about the project name is stored inside the DBs themselves.

Note:

Passwords will not be written to REPLICATE output. After running in the generated macro the Administrator of the new project will have to set user passwords before the replicated users can log in.

The Project Structure option creates a macro which can be run into AVEVA E3D™ to replicate the structure of the current project. No data is copied. When you select this option, a file browser is displayed so that you can give the pathname for the macro.

ADMIN scans the System database and outputs to the file all the commands necessary to recreate the project structure, in the following order:

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Add DBs to MDBs and make them current if appropriate.

To create a new project using the generated macro, set up a virgin project using make as described in Creating a Project. Then enter AVEVA E3D™ and run the macro by giving the command:

$m/pathname/ReplicateProj.mac

assuming that you have used the default filename ReplicateProj when you created the macro. To give this command:

•

Either start AVEVA E3D™ in tty mode, (that is, without the GUI) by typing AVEVA E3D™ tty, and type the command into the window where AVEVA E3D™ is running.

•

Start AVEVA E3D™ with the GUI, select Display > Command Window, and type the command into the Command window.