Hi, I think you just have to make copies of the 'dir_' tables from one database to the other. In fact, if you want to generate a whole new environment from the existing one, and you have an installation, for example, in linux, you can generate a tar.gz file of the installation directory and make a backup / restore of the complete DB . In my case I have made not only "copies" but complete migrations from one server to another, including active instances of processes in this way.

Yes, but this only works if the dev server is only used for a single application. Otherwise existing organizations/departments/users will be overwritten. Also when copying users from one to another instance the password encryption seems to change and require re-entering passwords. It seems like a organization/department/user migration utility could be written.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks, Bill