Refresh/Copy of SAP BPC/HANA Environment

Hi experts,
We are running SAP BPC on HANA with BW as our EDW. We would like to refresh our Regression environment with Production. However, i understand that with HANA technology the refresh may not be as simple as just a copy exercise.
Could you please advise on what are the steps or procedures that we need to take note of when undertaking such an exercise?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
TL

Hi TL,
What kind of refresh you are talking about: is it BPC Backup & Restore or system backup and restore?
If it's BPC tool then you shouldn't see any difference from similar procedure on another DB.
If it's HANA backup and restore then it's a completely different thing depending if your HANA box is co-habituated or not.
Please clarify.
Regards,
Gersh

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