What takes place during a homogeneous system copy?
The main purpose of a homogeneous system copy is to build a test, demo or training system or to move a system to a new hardware. The difference from a heterogeneous system copy is that both the database and operating system remain the same. Because of this on some platforms there is the possibility to perform the copy using database dependent methods. Please read SAP Note 89188. Please note – no matter if you change the version or bit version of either the operating system or the database, the system copy is still considered to be a homogeous system copy (e.g. system copy from Windows 2000 32-bit to Windows 2003 x64).
