Refreshing your Development System

[Former Member]

This may be in the wrong forum, but I was having a problem classifying this.

<b>Does anyone refresh their R/3 Development system from Production (Data, Repository, and Customization)?</b> In my 9 years of experience, we never did, but at my current company, we are being convinced that the refreshing of the Development system is necessary for 2 reasons: 1)The configuration in the Dev System does not reflect production and is corrupt, 2)The development system does not have adequate test data. We are currently on 4.6C with a Unix/Oracle platform.

[Former Member]

Here's an old article that might help on this issue: [ BASIS ADMINISTRATION Safeguarding the version database during a refresh of the development system|http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid21_gci1176707,00.html]

And a note about the transporting of versions: [130906 - How can versions be transported?|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/130906]

Hope that information is helpful.

J. Haynes

MindWorks