Downtime
Conclusion
After shutting down the target system, the technical system copy for upgrade 1 can be created at the infrastructure level. To automate the creation of the technical system copy for upgrade, HP System Copy can be used for the following steps.
In order to have up-to-date data and exactly the same software versions on an SAP test system for meaningful tests as are active on the production system, the production systems are regularly copied completely to the test system. However, many settings in the test system must be retained, because a test system should not act like a production system and, for example, send documents to customers and suppliers or trigger something in production.
Differentiation between homogeneous and heterogeneous SAP system copy
Depends on the extent of splitting and the degree of parallelization. When importing, the limiting factor is often the index structure.
The tool "Shortcut for SAP Systems" is excellently suited to complete an SAP system copy easier and faster.
For example, it is automatically recognized whether the system is an Abap, Java or double-stack system.