RE: Copying Large Amounts of Data From Prod to Dev

We evaluated Symclone a few years ago and found it was painfully slow and therefore we decided not to use it for the creation of our nightly DSS copy from production. It may have improved now but we have not tested it recently.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Zito Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:57 PM
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Subject: RE: Copying Large Amounts of Data From Prod to Dev

It should work alright - the only downside being that you have to allocate identically sized volumes to your production. Obviously, make sure you correctly map your timefinder groups to the underlying volumes (which if it's a veritas or LVM environment can be a little tricky, as sometimes your filesystem volumes have random blocks from disk devices you didn't realize were in use).

Thanks,
Matt

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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Peter Barnett

> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 1:46 PM

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> 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_at_regence.com

> 

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