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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Methods to Create Smaller Test DB from Production?
Juan - Make careful notes so in a few years you can look back and remind
yourself how good you had it "back then". But if you develop good habits
like creating test databases by recovering the production database, then you
will be in a better situation when the database grows.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On
Behalf Of Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:31 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Methods to Create Smaller Test DB from Production?
I don't have problems because my database is 2GB ;)
David,
I'll have to agree with Dennis on this one. We bit the bullet a long time
ago and now have enough disk space and platforms to replicate our ~750Gb
production database to 3 test instances. The man-hours to design and
mantain a viable subset for accurate testing was deemed more costly.
Mike Hand
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wagoner [mailto:dwagoner_at_arsenaldigital.com]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:20 PM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: RE: Methods to Create Smaller Test DB from Production?
So, Dennis, do you always have enough disk space on your test/dev servers to hold an entire copy of Production? For sites with VLDB, this is not possible.
(I agree that testing your backups is critical, and this is one method to do that- if you have enough disk space in Test.)
Best regards,
David B. Wagoner
Database Administrator
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