Refresh QA from produsction daily

I need to refresh one QA database from its production daily. The database version is 9.2.0.8 EE.
There are around 400 objects in the production schema. The export and import of complete schema daily is a time consuming process and also hit the performance of production database. Also, the QA app server to be taken offline daily. Is there any way apart from cloning and export/import. I'm thinking of asynchronous unidirectional replication scheduled to push daily once. Could someone suggest me best.
Thanks in advance.

Now, just for fun of mixing things up:
There is a difference between:
TEST
QA
STAGING
CERT
We typically use TEST for our developers to have their application code functionally tested.
Then, QA is one step above the TEST databases in which they use more formal tools like Test Director (I think Mercury makes this).
Next, STAGING and CERT are almost synonymous because this is basically an exact mimic of production in order to test final installations into a simulated production database. This CERT database also poses well as a DR database in case something happens to production. It can also be used for performance testing since it will mimic production, but of course, some kind of performance testing software will have to be used to simulate user loads.
Any other inputs?
Ji li

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