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Background- We have development and certificiation environments for SAP changes. These environments are kept in sync by ensuring that we adhere to a progression for configuration changes- they always move thru the same dev, quality, ceritfication, production process with testing at each phase.
As a business user, a challenge I encounter is having production type data available in the dev/qual/cert environments so that I can adequately test changes. We refresh our environments periodically to a copy of production, including data. After the refresh, no new data goes to these environments, only test data as entered by individual users and testers. This means that tests performed soon after a refresh have a lot of relevent production data to use for testing, but as we move further thru the year, the data is less and less avialable and less relevant.
Some of our changes are impacted by volume, but due to how we handle our environments, volume impacts are difficult to test or asess.
How do you manage production-like data for your dev/qual/cert environments? Do you encounter this same issue or have you found a solution?
Thank you!

Thanks for your comments, it is clear you understand my plight. The trouble is fully understanding what Apps and App Features are transferring data in the background any time you happen to turn WiFi to on (even if you have had it off most of the day or night). Obviously things like Location Services can constantly be sending and receiving data from my iPhone without any action on my part. Also if you have things like photo backup on the iCloud then each time you take a photo you are sending a copy out. All App Updates if set to Automatic also can add up to quite a bit of Data. Reading the News on AP or scrolling through FB News Feed is actually adding up to a lot of Data. There could be other culprits that I am not even thinking of. I don't want to turn Apps like Find My Phone off or turn iCloud off due to loosing the value of such a program entirely. Again thanks for your quick response.

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