Re: Copying Oracle software between Unix servers

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:39:45 -0800
Message-ID: <424C43F1.5040006@pacbell.net>

Why only interested in the "bad" stories? The concept of creating a Known Good "master" install (using OUI in the case of Oracle) and then pushing it out is a common, successful technique for many commercial software products, and can work out well for Oracle too.

The 10g version of OUI has a few new features that try to address this problem (maintaining known good multiple installs), but it still comes up short.

Here are a few hints:

don't use tar, use rsync -- this allows you to determine the parts that are copied identically and those that remain unique on each server. (Plus instead of copying each byte three times using tar, you only copy it once using rsync, and only the bytes that need to be copied, not all of them).

1-a) don't include the inventory in your copy (which is typically outside of the ORACLE_HOME anyway)

2) RAC is a special case, since you are installing the cluster, not an individual machine (in other words, there's not a "master" installation available to copy).

-Mark Bole

David Sharples wrote:

> yes you can really mess up the inventory and then you are unable to patch it
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:19:06 -0500, Luc Demanche <lucdemanche_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>

>>Hi,

> A friend of mine was telling me that in his shop, they don't install
> Oracle software by the Installer anymore. They 'tar' one ORACLE_HOME
> from a unix server and copy it to the new server. It seem to work
> properly.

>>Do you have some bad stories about that?
>

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