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Abhishek Thakur 17Abhishek Thakur 17 

Regarding refreshing instance

Hi All,

I want to know whether we can refresh only data from the production instance to the sandbox instance.

 
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SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
@Abhishek,
That doesn't seem possible.

There is also an idea to have this implementedhttps://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00000GdoHfUAJ/refresh-data-only-from-full-sandbox-to-production-and-back

Similar scenario: https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/49370/80089

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best. Thank you

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SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
HI Abhishek,
Basically a sandbox "refresh" is really a brand-new instance based on production or another sandbox.

See how to refresh a Cloned Sandbox : https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.data_sandbox_refresh_clone.htm&type=5

Using this clone sandbox functionality, you can update the sandbox’s metadata and data from its source org.

Also see this idea https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00000Gddc2UAB/sandbox-refresh-ability-between-sandboxes

Related old post: https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/120574/sandbox-to-sandbox-copy-best-way

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best. Thank you
Abhishek Thakur 17Abhishek Thakur 17

Hi Swetha,

Understood, But I want to know whether we can refresh just the DATA alone from production to sandbox.

SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
@Abhishek,
That doesn't seem possible.

There is also an idea to have this implementedhttps://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00000GdoHfUAJ/refresh-data-only-from-full-sandbox-to-production-and-back

Similar scenario: https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/49370/80089

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best. Thank you
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