Does having a near mirror test site cause SEO problems?

[MDawg]

My forum is at www.myforum.com/forums

I have a near identical test site in a password protected folder:
www.myforum.com/testforum
The database on the testforum is what my forums...

[Trevor Hannant]

When a new version of vBulletin comes out, there's always a clamour to get upgraded as fast as possible While in the case of bug fixes, the need to upgrade quickly is understandable, too often on the...

[malmazan]

I would like to copy everything in my current forum database (except for threads, posts, users and such) to my test forum.

How do i go about this?

(test forum is kosher i.e....