Q:Copy production database to Q/A or test environment

  • From: Amihay Gonen <AmihayG@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:05:57 +0300

Hi , 
 
I've a requirement to develop a process to copy production database (3Tb and
above) at customer site to QA or test environment (Vendor side).
 
The requirements are :
*       Database structures - This include tables,indexes , code
(package,trigger ...) , views ...(select count(*) from DBA_objects = 150,000
)
*       Data of main configurations tables. (total size of all tables is
less then 200M).

 
 
This copy is done in order to investigate problem in customer sites and to
verify that patches which will be release , will run well.
 
I'm thinking on two ways to developer such process :

1.      Full exp without data + A list of tables to export with data. Zipped
those files , transfer them to vendor site , import those files into a clean
database.
2.      Take a hot backup of system  and undo tablespaces and the
configurations tablespace  (let's assume that all the configurations tables
are in the same tablespace).Zipped those files , transfer them to vendor
site , create a new instance , recover and open the database

 
What do you think it , it's the best way to go ? Please note that this
process should be done with minimal DBA resource in the process. (DBA is a
rare resource :) )
 

Amihay Gonen
DBA,
972-3-9268280 

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