System copy for QAS

We are Go Live before 2 years.
Our SAP Landscape is Development->Quality->Production.
Now we want to refresh Quality server thru system copy.
So we can have same data, config and abap development as our Production. So it very useful in testing.
At present there are many abap developments which are not transfer to production due to some reasons.
So we are facing problem during testing as Production and Quality abap developments are different in some cases.
Is is advisable to re-fresh quality with production thru system copy?
Request you all to please share your experience.
Regards,
-dt

Hi,
Thanks for you inputs.
So I will prepare a list of developments are under testing and not transported to production.
after system copy I need to import transport requests of the same in Quality.
Those development which not required to transport in production, that request no need to transport in quality. As I have mention in my post that there are certain old developments which are not transported in production and no need to transport in future also.
This is my first experience on SAP. Is it advisable to refresh quality server. In companies what standard practice follow after go live.
Regards,
-dt

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[JAVA Sytem Copy for ORACLE |https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cd76e07d-0c01-0010-298d-f699863f2ce4]
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