Clients always come with the requirements to refresh the lower environment with PROD like data. There are many reasons for this but not limited to the few mentioned below:
- Refresh testing environment to perform UAT (User Acceptance testing) or SVP (Stress, Volume and Performance) testing.
- Refresh PSP (Production Support Platform) environment which is used to replicate PROD issues.
This documents contains the steps to refresh lower environment database from PROD/higher environments.
Note: This does not contain the steps to mask PROD data. This work needs to be done separately with the help of experience resources.
