About This Appendix

If you need to copy or move metadata-bound libraries in the file system, we recommend that you use SAS, not operating system commands.
Note: An exception to this guideline is that using a host copy command to back up or restore physical data to the same directory is not problematic.
For example, if you use SAS (the COPY procedure) to copy a table, the new table takes on the nature of its parent library as follows:
The following topics depict the security impact of copying or moving metadata-bound libraries and tables.