preserving a table when cloning

[cicgordy]

Hi all,

I have to clone production instance to development instance, I want to keep certain tables unaffected on the Dev instance, can someone please clarify if by preserving an entire table will ensure all the records on that particular table are not going to be overwritten with new data from production after cloning? 

Thanks 🙂

[Mike_R · Accepted solution]

It will preserve data. Just make sure to setup a clone data preserver with the correct table and conditions, add it to your clone profile, and make sure that profile is selected when you request the clone. If that table also has refence fields, you might want to preserve those tables too. Alternative, if the tables aren't too large, you can export/import the XMLs.

https://docs.servicenow.com/en-US/bundle/tokyo-platform-administration/page/administer/managing-data...