Is there an easier way to create a new Test environment (as a renamed copy of an existing environment, after an RMAN restore of the source database) than manually installing all of that environment's historical deliveries one by one?

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Use IFS's own instance backup-and-restore-as-clone tooling rather than manually reinstalling every historical delivery: locate the create_backup.cmd file under the existing source instance's own instance\<name>\bin folder (checking the technical documentation, or the command file itself, for its exact parameters) to back up the source instance, and use its corresponding restore-as-clone command to extract and restore that backup as a new instance under a different target name. This clones the existing, already-up-to-date instance directly under a new name, rather than needing to reapply the full delivery history manually against a fresh base install.

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