Types of Sandbox
What is a Sandbox
A sandbox is a replica environment of your main production org, which contains all the metadata from the main org. It’s login url is test.salesforce.com instead of login.salesforce.com.
Sandboxes are only available in the following salesforce editions :
- Enterprise
- Performance
- Unlimited
- Database.com
A sandbox refresh is when we refetch all the metadata/data from production into a sandbox instance.
NOTE : Refreshing a sandbox overrides all the undeployed code, so make sure all the changes are deployed to production before you refresh a sandbox.
Sandbox Description and Availability
| Type | Refresh Interval | Storage Limit | What is copied from production? | Are templates used? |
| Developer | 1 day | 200 MB (data) 200 MB (files) | Metadata only | No |
| Developer Pro | 1 day | 1 GB (data) 1 GB (files) | Metadata only | No |
| Partial Copy | 5 days | 5 GB (data) 5 GB (files) | Metadata and sample data | Yes, required. |
| Full Copy | 29 days | Same as production | Metadata and all data. | Yes, but not required. |
Number of Sandboxes available per edition
| Type | Professional Edition | Performance Edition | Enterprise Edition | Unlimited Edition |
| Developer | 10 | 100 | 25 | 100 |
| Developer Pro | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Partial Copy | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Full Copy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |