Development CRM Refresh...

We currently have our development CRM system linked to our development ERP system and have downloaded various data including customers, taxes, products, etc. In addition we have also started testing our development system by creating opportunities, orders, etc using those master data pieces we downloaded.
We are getting ready to refresh our development ERP system from our production ERP system so that we can apply some mandatory patches. We currently do not have CRM in production.
My question is, if we refresh ERP DEV without refreshing CRM DEV data inconsistencies will result most likely. How can we go about mitigating this without refreshing our CRM DEV system?
Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Hello Keith,
Check the note 588701, 765018 for all the errors that can arise to such a refresh and all the solutions that you should apply to make the rectifications.
Reward points if this helps!!
Rgds
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