Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

Hello

We currently have two Identical servers (identical in terms of both Hardware and SW).
We run Oracle 7.3.4.0 (Workgroup server) on Win NT 4 on both the servers. We call them as Production Server and Stand by server. The Stand by server is passive in nature (i.e. does not do anything). Every night a batch process shuts down Oracle instance on both the machines and copies over all the files (Data, log, ctl etc) from Production Server to the Stand by server
(Drive to drive, directory to directory...)

In case the Production Server fails, we simply switch over the users (with a different alias to the stand by server) and they are back in business.

Now, we are thinking of migrating to 8.1.7, however while trying to install this version, one needs to specify a Global name which I believe has to be unique on the network. So will the same process that I used to run (i.e. copy all files over from production to stand by ) work??? I guess both my servers will now have to have separate/unique Global Names.

Is there any other approach that any of you can suggest???

TIA
Arif

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