Environment
Oracle 11.2.0.2, Solaris 10
Packing Source Oracle Home
export CLONE=/oracle/stage/clone11.2.0.2
echo $CLONE
cd $ORACLE_HOME
Optionally you can create Exclude List for tar command to
exclude some files from source home.
Log files:
find . -name "*.log" >$CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
find . -name "*.err" >>$CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
find . -name "*.err" >>$CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
Database templates:
find ./assistants/dbca/templates >>$CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
Network files:
Network files:
find ./network/admin >>$CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
Check your Exclude file:
cat $CLONE/ExcludeList.txt
tar -cvfX - $CLONE/ExcludeList.txt . | gzip -c
>$CLONE/oracle_home11.2.tar.gz
If source and target are on the same host you can use
cp
-Rp $ORACLE_HOME
Ignore errors for files owned by root (nmb, nmo, etc.)
Cloning Oracle Home
Check or create oraInst.loc
cat
/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
Optionally J check known issues in
Master Note For Cloning Oracle Database Server ORACLE_HOME's
Using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) [ID 1154613.1]
Navigate to new Oracle home:
cd /oracle/product/11.2.0.2/db_2
or if you have set the variables
cd $ORACLE_HOME
pwd
Unpack Oracle home to new location
gunzip
< /oracle/stage/clone11.2.0.2/oracle_home11.2.tar.gz | tar xvf –
unset
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
unset
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64
Check that other variables do not point to different Oracle
home or unset them
echo
$PATH
unset
ORACLE_HOME
unset
ORACLE_BASE
unset
TNS_ADMIN
cd
clone/bin
perl
clone.pl ORACLE_HOME="/oracle/product/11.2.0.2/db_2"
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="OraDB11g_home2" ORACLE_BASE="/oracle"
OSDBA_GROUP=dba OSOPER_GROUP=oper
as root run
/oracle/rdbms/11.2.0.2/ora10R4/root.sh
Update
listener.ora
tnsnames.ora
Useful Links
Master Note For Cloning Oracle Database Server ORACLE_HOME's
Using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) [ID 1154613.1]
How To Clone An Existing RDBMS Installation Using OUI [ID
300062.1]
FAQs on RDBMS Oracle Home Cloning Using OUI [ID 565009.1]
