And actually, as I think about it, if you're just looking to move data from one place to another, the symclone stuff might be a bit of overkill for it - if you just want to move a chunk of data from one place to another, you could use a timefinder snapshot, which would reduce your disk usage, or if its done infrequently, you could use a standard BCV, which provides better performance than the symclone piece. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Zito Chief Scientist GridApp Systems P: 646-452-4090 mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Barnett > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 1:46 PM > To: Oracle-l > Subject: Copying Large Amounts of Data From Prod to Dev > > We are considering using EMC Symclone to copy data from > production to development databases. Does anyone have any > experience with this product used in this way? Any 'gotchas' > or words of wisdom? > > Pete Barnett > Lead Database Administrator > The Regence Group > pnbarne@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________ > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l