What is the best approach to creating a Developer Copy sandbox of another sandbox ? I've read that you essentially need to deploy everything from one sandbox to the other. My question is how do I start the new Sandbox ? It sounds like I need a blank sandbox which I can start deploying all of my components into – but I don't know how to create that "blank" one.
Is this the right approach ? How do I create that "blank" sandbox ? Any kind of advice I can get would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Best Answer
To make a copy of a Sandbox, you would need to deploy configuration metadata from one instance to the other using the metadata API. You can use either the Eclipse IDE, Ant, MavensMate or BrainEngine to move metadata from one instance to another. There is no copy function from one sandbox to another like there is when burning a sandbox from production.