Re: Adding a Test server to our Prod and Dev Environment - Best way to sync Test?

2009-05-18 Thread Susan Palmer
Thanks to everyone that responded ... there was some very useful information! Susan On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.comwrote: ** I am in favor too of the database copy from production to test and even development. Copying a database between servers with

Re: Adding a Test server to our Prod and Dev Environment - Best way to sync Test?

2009-05-15 Thread Nicky Madjarov
Susan, The most effective way, in my opinion, is to restore a copy of the prod db, then masage the data and start the test ar services. It will have all the data from prod, well loaded system takes about 4-6 hours to restore, and then you do the data masaging, that can be scripted as sql and

Re: Adding a Test server to our Prod and Dev Environment - Best way to sync Test?

2009-05-15 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
One thing to keep in mind is that the Licenses are now stored in the database (since v7.1.0). Make sure that Production has ALL the server licenses listed (so when you restore to Test or Dev the system will not complain about licensing). We have Dev, 2 Test, and Production systems and

Re: Adding a Test server to our Prod and Dev Environment - Best way to sync Test?

2009-05-15 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I am in favor too of the database copy from production to test and even development. Copying a database between servers with Oracle is simple, your DBA should not have any problem with that. The other reason why I think that having a copy of production in dev and test is to make sure that the

Re: Adding a Test server to our Prod and Dev Environment - Best way to sync Test?

2009-05-14 Thread Rod Harris
Hi Susan, I have several dev servers that I keep up to date with various prod servers. I use Misi's rrrChive program for doing that. It is free and extremely useful for synchronising the data between two servers. It is comand line and config file driven so it is easy to create various config