From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Mar 31 13:43:39 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2VJhdMK013780 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:43:39 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2VJhcem013773 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:43:38 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 546118A892; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13206-01; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A79D88B624; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <424C43F1.5040006@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:39:45 -0800 From: Mark Bole User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Copying Oracle software between Unix servers References: <4b36877205033105192dc14fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 17941 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: makbo@pacbell.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: makbo@pacbell.net X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: 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: 1) 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 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? > -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l