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  • Anurag algoworks

    Member
    August 8, 2018 at 12:47 PM

    Hi Madhulika,

    Full Copy and Partial Copy are the examples of various types of Sandbox that are available for use.

    Partial Copy
    Partial Data sandboxes include all of your organization’s metadata and add a selected amount of your production organization's data that you define using a sandbox template. A Partial Data sandbox is a Developer sandbox plus the data you define in a sandbox template. It includes the reports, dashboards, price books, products, apps, and customizations under Setup (including all of your metadata). Additionally, as defined by your sandbox template, Partial Data sandboxes can include your organization's standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments up to 5 GB of data and a maximum of 10,000 records per selected object. A Partial Data sandbox is smaller than a Full sandbox and has a shorter refresh interval. You can refresh a Partial Data sandbox every 5 days.

    Full Sandbox
    Full sandboxes copy your entire production organization and all its data, including standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments. You can refresh a Full sandbox every 29 days.
    Sandbox templates allow you to pick specific objects and data to copy to your sandbox, so you can control the size and content of each sandbox. Sandbox templates are only available for Partial Data or Full sandboxes.

  • shariq

    Member
    September 17, 2018 at 11:22 PM

    Hi,

    1) Full Sandbox - Fully testing changes against real data before promoting to production.  This may include user acceptance testing.  All changes must go through this sandbox.  If multiple admins/developers are working on overlapping areas, this is the place where changes get merged.  Force.com IDE can be used to compare changes by separate developers of the same apex code.

    2) Partial Data Sandbox - This is a new sandbox type and I am not quite sure what the intention was.  Probably just a cheaper alternative to a full sandbox.  If you have a full sandbox, then partial data sandbox sounds like a good place for user training for new features, new employees, etc.  Having real data can really help with training.  Also, possibly a place to work on integration changes since it can hold quite a bit of real data.

    3) Developer - A place to work through solutions to new requirements.  The main idea is to keep random experimentation out of the full sandbox.  It there are multiple admins/developers, each one should get their own so that they don't trample on each others work (until they deploy to the full sandbox).

    4) Developer Pro - The main difference between this and Developer is the amount of data that can be stored.  It also grabs some product data from production.  If those two things are important, use this one.  Otherwise, it's interchangeble with Developer.

    Hope this helps.

  • Parul

    Member
    September 18, 2018 at 9:11 PM

    Hi

    Partial Copy
    Partial Data sandboxes include all of your organization’s metadata and add a selected amount of your production organization's data that you define using a sandbox template. A Partial Data sandbox is a Developer sandbox plus the data you define in a sandbox template. It includes the reports, dashboards, price books, products, apps, and customizations under Setup (including all of your metadata). Additionally, as defined by your sandbox template, Partial Data sandboxes can include your organization's standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments up to 5 GB of data and a maximum of 10,000 records per selected object. A Partial Data sandbox is smaller than a Full sandbox and has a shorter refresh interval. You can refresh a Partial Data sandbox every 5 days.
    REFRESH LIMIT    :-  5 Days
    DATA LIMIT          :-  5GB

    Full Sandbox
    Full sandboxes copy your entire production organization and all its data, including standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments. You can refresh a Full sandbox every 29 days.
    Sandbox templates allow you to pick specific objects and data to copy to your sandbox, so you can control the size and content of each sandbox. Sandbox templates are only available for Partial Data or Full sandboxes.
    REFRESH LIMIT    :-  29 Days
    DATA LIMIT          :-  Same as Production

     

    Thanks

     

  • Prachi

    Member
    September 21, 2018 at 5:31 AM

    hi,

    Partial Copy
    Partial Data sandboxes include all of your organization’s metadata and add a selected amount of your production organization’s data that you define using a sandbox template. A Partial Data sandbox is a Developer sandbox plus the data you define in a sandbox template

     Full Sandbox – Fully testing changes against real data before promoting to production.  This may include user acceptance testing.  All changes must go through this sandbox.  If multiple admins/developers are working on overlapping areas, this is the place where changes get merged.

    thanks

  • Pooja

    Member
    February 5, 2020 at 1:51 PM

    Partial Copy-

    The Partial Copy Sandbox add-on is bundled with 10 Developer Sandboxes.

    Full Copy-

    The Full copy add-on is bundled with 15 Developer Sandboxes.

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