RE: Copy instead of install

Just from memory, here are the things you need to remember:

• You have to install in an identical ORACLE_HOME path on the prototype (orignal where you used the OUI) and on the destination (where you are copying). There are hardcoded paths.
• You need to do the things that root.sh and the installer do:
  • also copy oraInventory, oui directories, etc.
  • make sure the line in /etc/oraInst.loc has the correct inventory_loc and inst_group.
  • relink oracle

Also remember that you need a working oraInventory for all verions of Oracle installed in that directory. So if you are running 8.1.7 and 9.2.0.3, then you need your prototype oraInventory to be from a host where you also have both of those installed in the same location.

If you skimp on some of these extras, oracle still runs, but you can't use the OUI to upgrade/patch it. Then you're screwed.

Copy things in such a way that there is no loss of permissions and owners. Something like this?:

tar cvf - /opt/app/oracle/product | rsh <target host> "cd /opt/app/oracle/product; tar xvf -"

I've never seen a problem with host name. I've been using this method for a while. The OUI is unusable in many circumstances, including WAN, ADSL and dial-up. I open a TAR stating such with every release that the unusability of the OUI goes unaddressed.

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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Stephane Faroult wrote:



> There are some problems. One used to be able to do this fairly easily, but starting with Oracle 9 (I think) the installer has begun to store things such as the hostname in (XML) files during the installation. If you are on a decent OS try

> 

> find $ORACLE_HOME -exec grep <your hostname> /dev/null {} \;

> 

> Being over 40 and therefore the CLI type (notwithsanding that the slowness of the installer despairs me) I have vaguely begun to find a (unabashedly unsupported) way to get around it, but I have done a context switch (several indeed) since.

> 

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Stephane Faroult

> Oriole

> 

> 

> >----- ------- Original Message ------- -----

> >From: Maria Aurora de la Vega

> ><mtdelavega_at_pse.org.ph>

> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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> >Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:51:38

> >

> >I was wondering if it is possible to do a copy of

> >an Oracle Server

> >installation instead of a fresh install and just

> >relink the executables.

> >

> >I have observed that OUI messages show 2 main

> >actions during

> >install...copy and linking.

> >

> >Any problems you see in this?

> >

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> Author: Stephane Faroult

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