Currently there are differences between Prod and Dev so trying to get both in sync.  We don't have enough space in Dev to copy a large datastore and it will take a long time if we have to do it often so trying to see if there is better way to get them in sync.

Thanks.  In our case we don't want to copy the datastore just the instance so that the configs are same in prod/dev.  So if we copy the instance from prod to dev and use the datastore in dev or have empty datastore will it work.  Does segmentstore have references to content in datastore.

We like to sync dev with production before we start an upgrade or project work on the instance in dev.  We do not want to copy the datastore as it is large.  How can we do it.