System Refresh related SAP BASIS Interview Question

The production system should be hosted in a separated node. Just to answer your question, you could use local client copy (SCCL) with profile SAP_ALL from QAS. This will copy the entire client from Production. (also called Client Refresh) If you want to retain the user master data for the target system (QAS)

1. export the user master using SCC8 with profile SAP_USER to the OS before the client copy;

2. perform local client copy SCCL and;

3. import the User Master Data back using SCC7 DL.

Client Copy : SCC8 Export from the source SCC9 Importing to target The following statements only apply to cross-system client copies. To set up a new client by client copy, the structures of all tables to be copied must be identical in the source and the target system.

Remote client copy: Before the client copy process is started, a consistency check is automatically made. If inconsistencies are detected, the copy process is not started and an error message is logged. You can also perform the consistency check yourself with the RFC System Comparison pushbutton.

Client transport: If an RFC connection can be established between the systems, you can use the report RSCLICHK to compare the structures. If they differ, transport errors and inconsistencies may occur. You can run the program directly in the transaction SCC8 with the RFC System Check pushbutton. Piroz

you can SAINT tool to copy the data from production to quality system. this SAINT Tool will help you with road map to done system copy