Technical system copy for the upgrade
SAP Landscape Copies
This means that the time required to create an SAP system copy - be it for providing a system copy for training purposes, be it for testing purposes or whatever - is drastically minimized. Instead of several days, only hours are required for system copying.
The process of creating system copies for updates can be broken down into different activities, as shown in Table 1. For each group, the software used for automation is shown, where "UC4" stands for UC4 Automated System Copy and "HP" stands for HP System Copy. All these activity groups are described individually below.
Reliable and fast rework after SAP® system copies
To summarize, an SAP system refresh is a complex but necessary process to keep non-productive environments up to date. Detailed planning, consideration of data protection aspects and close coordination with all parties involved are essential for a successful refresh. Companies that require regular refreshes should examine the extent to which automation solutions can make the process more efficient. Only a well thought-out and precise implementation can ensure that test and development environments retain their full functionality and provide a reliable basis for future developments.
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There are now a number of tools that simplify refresh activities of non-production SAP systems. The tools are imported into SAP systems via transports and enable the data to be copied to be written in. The more precise the selection, the greater the potential savings in storage space and extraction time compared to client copy. As with the latter, the configuration is retained and ongoing development and test processes remain undisturbed.
With "Shortcut for SAP Systems" any tables can be saved and restored. This is especially useful in the context of an SAP system copy - quite a few tables are system-specific and must exist unchanged in the system after a system copy.Shortcut for SAP Systems uses R3trans - a utility from SAP that is essentially used in the Transport Management System (TMS) environment. With "Shortcut for SAP Systems" it is now also available outside the TMS and enables completely new and diverse application possibilities. Among others in the environment of a system copy. R3trans works database independent. I.e. even in the case of a system refresh from an SAP system with an Oracle DB to a system with HANA, the backup and restore process works!
Releasing the consistent disk blocks of the source database - resuming I/O activities or executing the DATABASE END ONLINE BACKUP command.
What is the purpose of copying a complete SAP system? - Well, there are several reasons.