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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2025

SERVICEABILITY - Backflow (Request to manually restore QA/DEV with PRD data)

SERVICEABILITY - Backflow (Request to manually restore QA/DEV with PRD data)
SRE MAS

- Backflow (Request to manually restore QA/DEV with PRD data)

- Year To Date Counts from Customer Requests: 50

- Sample Cases: SREDBA-1435 - Backflow SBX2 from PROD, SREDBA-1575 - ET to complete backflow

- Impact: Customers require the ability to move data from one environment to another for verification, validation and testing. A use case is taking Production data and importing into TEST, then enabling a new integration or Automation Script and ensuring all the Object Structures and code is working correctly before “promoting” to Production. Functionality exists within Flex.

- Backout Plan: If backflow fails, DBA will need to manually fetch backups, move to instance, then manually import the database.

- How Does This Improve The Offering: Customers in Flex have this option within Self Service Portal. Customers in MAS require similar functionality.

Idea priority Medium