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James,
No, the init.ora file does not have the same database name as the live database. This is confirmed because we can bring both databases up after the cloning process. But your observation on the file headers having the same db name as the live one makes sense. If thats the case, then I think the clone will not work without the live db being down for the duration of the creation of the new instance.
Thanks
mkb
In article <81ucst$b3j$1_at_gxsn.com>, "James Belton"
<jbelton_at_freenetname.co.uk> wrote:
> Has your clone database got the same name (in the init.ora file)
> as your
> live database?
> You may find that the datafiles you have copied contain the
> original
> database name in the file header and so will give you this problem.
> Check the init.ora file for the clone and check they are not
> trying to use
> the same DB name as a start.