RE: Copying Large Amounts of Data From Prod to Dev

From: Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <371478.67615.qm@web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Thanks for the thoughts. We are likely going to be refreshing and rebuilding at least three multi-terabyte databases every month for development. Same for systems and integration testing. Speed is definitely an issue.

We would also like to reduce the number of DBA resources required to do this. That is what originally drove the Symclone question. Can we do this with little, or no, DBA time? There seems to be agreement that it is slow. Guess we need a 'Plan B'.

Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:

> And actually, as I think about it, if you're just
> looking to move data
> from one place to another, the symclone stuff might
> be a bit of overkill
> for it - if you just want to move a chunk of data
> from one place to
> another, you could use a timefinder snapshot, which
> would reduce your
> disk usage, or if its done infrequently, you could
> use a standard BCV,
> which provides better performance than the symclone
> piece.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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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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Pete Barnett
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Received on Mon Jun 18 2007 - 15:20:43 CDT