Systemcopy sap QAS longTime

[scoliveira]

Hello everyone, I'm performing the homogeneous system copy of my SAP QAS SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 using SAPINS. I exported it, and it took approximately 72 hours. Now I'm in the process of importing it to another server, and it has been 6 days, but it hasn't finished yet. Is there anything in this process that can be done faster?

[Sriram2009]

Hi Scoliveira, what is the DB size? since it is MS SQl just do the backup of source DB and restore the same in the target system start the SWPM regards

[scoliveira]

I used sapinst and went to systemcopy homogeneous, and exported the central instance data base. then I went to the target server with the same operating system configuration, SQL server and ran sapinst, I went to target and followed the steps. My base has 1.5Tb. I followed the document you informed me. but I think it's missing

[mamartins]

If you exported the DB contents and now are importing, you aren't doing a homogeneous copy but a heterogeneous one!
Please refer to the official SAP copy manuals: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System Copy - Target Databases: SAP ASE; SAP MaxDB; Oracle; IBM Db2 fo... 

[scoliveira]

I used sapinst and went to systemcopy homogeneous, and exported the central instance data base. then I went to the target server with the same operating system configuration, SQL server and ran sapinst, I went to target and followed the steps. My base has 1.5Tb. I followed the document you informed me. but I think there's some detail missing.