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]

Hello Jhonathan,

If do you need the stable configuration from production system, its is possible using a export-import client or a remote client copy. This can apply for independent repository objects (reports, dictionary objects).

If do you need fresh data, its more complicated because do you need a homogeneous copy using any way (db backup/restore, R3copy, copy of file system), change the SID of the system and voila, but this is very expensive on resources (disk) and administration resources (you). In the market exists several tools for make a reduced client copies like SAP TDMS or Infomation (former Gamma Technologies) Infoshuttle.

Kind Regads,

Carlos