System and Method for Managing Sandbox in Enterprise Content Management

A method for creating a snapshot of a sandbox comprising:

• establishing, by a server, an access protocol for a production repository of a production domain,
• wherein content is stored in the production repository according to the access protocol;
• creating, by the server, a first sandbox,
• wherein the first sandbox is in a sandbox domain, and wherein the sandbox domain is segregated from the production domain;
• creating, by the server and at a first time, a first snapshot of the first sandbox,
• wherein the first snapshot is a zip file organized as a database system, and wherein the zip file comprises information of the first sandbox at the first time;
• storing, by the server, the first snapshot of the first sandbox in the sandbox domain;
• storing, by the server, attributes of the first snapshot of the first sandbox in the sandbox domain, wherein the attributes of the first snapshot of the first sandbox comprise a name, a description, and identification information of the first sandbox;
• and
• resetting, by the server, the first sandbox by modifying the first sandbox to include the information of the first sandbox at the first time.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions embodied therein that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations to create a snapshot of a sandbox, the operations comprising:

• establishing an access protocol for a production repository of a production domain,
• wherein content is stored in the production repository according to the access protocol;
• creating a first sandbox,
• wherein the first sandbox is in a sandbox domain, and wherein the sandbox domain is segregated from the production domain;
• creating, at a first time, a first snapshot of the first sandbox,
• wherein the first snapshot comprises information of the first sandbox at the first time;
• storing first snapshot of the first sandbox in the sandbox domain;
• storing attributes of the first snapshot of the first sandbox in the sandbox domain, wherein the attributes of the first snapshot of the first sandbox comprise a name, a description, and identification information of the first sandbox;
• resetting the first sandbox by modifying the first sandbox to include the information of the first sandbox at the first time;
• and
• updating the first snapshot by creating a new snapshot of the first sandbox with the same name.