Homogeneous System Copy using Online/Offline Database Backup
Reasons for Copying a SAP System
SAP recommends that you make a system copy in order to build a test, demo, training or standby system (Oracle and Informix: standby systems cannot be created with a system copy). You should perform upgrades in a test system first. This way you can identify customer pecific problems which might result from modifications. Thus, we can sort the general needs for a system copy as follow:
- To create a new training system for end-user or project team education
- To create a DEMO system
- To create a Test system for upgrade or other purposes.
- To recover a system on another machine with the same platform after a crash.
- To copy large clients. If a client very large to export/import, it is better to do a system copy rather than client transport.
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