Database copy procedure

Hello All,
How can I copy my PRODUCTION server data to DEVELOPMENT server.
Prd Server System Information.
Database: Maxdb 7.5
Operating system: Win 2k3 SP2
Database size : 57GB
Development server has same configuration of PRD server
should i directly restore PRD offline backup to Dev server. Will it work?
Please guide me...
Best regards
Amol

Hi Amol,
Ideally I shall not recommend you to make database copy from PRD to DEV since all the version management in the development system will be lost by doing this.
For your question:
Development server has same configuration of PRD server
should i directly restore PRD offline backup to Dev server. Will it work?
Yes. It will work.
Alternate solution
As you are interested in copying PRD data to development, I would suggest you to create a new client in Development system and perform client copy from PRD to Development (new client) with SAP_ALL profile.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

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Mailbox Database Faculty Medium (Mounted)
Public Folder Database (It should be here, right?) (Mounted)
Now, if we try to make a copy of “Mailbox Database Faculty Small”,
it will be available as a passive database copy on NASD-MBX2. However, there are five Database mounted on NASD-MBX2 including the Public Folder Database. So it will
get the error “Server has reached the maximum database limit of 5”. We can delete the Public Folder Database to test it.
In ADSIEdit, please refer the following image to find these databases.
Best Regards.

Database copy procedure

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