Hi,

If your test and production environments are homogeneous then you can use the trasport tablespace facility provided in export utility in oracle 8i and above.

In case of trasnport tablespace export just takes dump of metadata related to tablespace you are exporting and you just need to copy data files accross to test environment and sync them using import.

In this case ftp make take a little longer but you can try zipping them and transfer the files to test environment.

Thanks