Copying template project

hello all,
We are trying to copy our template project which holds the complete business process structure including all content and documentation in our production system, to safeguard our template project. The target project type is also a template project. If we copy the template project with transaction solar_project_admin, we cannot get into the copied template project. We receive the next error message the "process structure doesn't not exist" and SAP refers to the SOLAR_GEN_* batch job, which didn;t run correctly. If we copy the template project in our test environment we don't have any problems. Only thing is that in the source template project in the template tab of project administration, the number of templates is growing each time we do a copy template project.
It seems that it is not possible to copy templates in production and probably that is why no process structure is created in the target template project.
Does anybody come across this issue?
thanks in advance,
Ralph

Hi Srini,
If you want to copy your template project e.g. for saveguarding your template project, you can copy the template project by using the transaction solar_project_admin. It is only possible to copy template to template.
The moment you copy the template project the assigned templates will be copied because they need to be unique. The background batch job does copy these assigned templates and will name the template an unique name e.g. template1.
For copying these templates you need to open your customizing otherwise the background job cannot copy the templates.
hope this will help.
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           line                                                  102
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