safe way to test the sample data install.

so since there is no way to remove fields in an easy way after they are added, and the fact that it took me 3 intsstalls (complete reinstalls of ms crm) to finally get ms crm working with the sampe data, i want to cover my A$$ while playing around with this. i have heard people say backup first, then you can restore. does this mean backup the dbs? it looks like there are 4 dbs created for the avendture works. do i just need to back these suckers up and restore them if all goes wrong again... ? looks like two of them are being replicated, will that be a probem in backing up? I assume this is becuase all the logic for the forms, ui rules, etc... is all stored in the db.?? anything else i need to bakcup first before i go screwing with the data? answer is appreciated, thank you !!

Matt
Tue Jul 13 23:19:10 CDT 2004

Backing up the Metabase & MSCRM database is teh critical step in terms of
customizations. There are stpes in the IG that cover how to restore and
re-enable the replication.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:14:03 -0700, "JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

so since there is no way to remove fields in an easy way after they are added,
and the fact that it took me 3 intsstalls (complete reinstalls of ms crm) to
finally get ms crm working with the sampe data, i want to cover my A$$ while
playing around with this. i have heard people say backup first, then you can
restore. does this mean backup the dbs? it looks like there are 4 dbs created
for the avendture works. do i just need to back these suckers up and restore
them if all goes wrong again... ? looks like two of them are being replicated,
will that be a probem in backing up? I assume this is becuase all the logic for
the forms, ui rules, etc... is all stored in the db.?? anything else i need to
bakcup first before i go screwing with the data? answer is appreciated, thank
you !!