Access and Nonproduction Data Practices

In a perfect world, my test/QA servers get restored nightly from production. Let's say every night at 9pm, the production full backups kick off, and they're finished by 10pm. At 11pm, the QA box kicks off a restore job that grabs the latest full backups off the file share and restores them. The production backups are written to a file share, never local storage, so there's no additional overhead on the production box for this restore process.