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Rapidly creating copies of production data sets for application development and testing
Under normal circumstances, to perform application development and testing, data must
be restored from traditional backup media, such as tape. Depending the amount of data
and the technology in use, this process could easily take a day or more. With FlashCopy,
a copy can be created and online for use in just a few minutes. The time varies based on
the application and the data set size.
Rapidly creating copies of production data sets for auditing purposes and data mining
Auditing or data mining normally require the usage of the production applications. This
situation can cause high loads for databases track inventories or similar ...