Re: Staging Area

Hi,

 Build a Permanent Staging Area.

  One of the best things that you can do for yourself while installing Oracle
  from tape is to build a Permanent Staging Area.

  The advantage of building a Permanent Staging Area is that if you need to   re-install a product for any reason, you can simply install it from the   Permanent Staging Area and save yourself a significant amount of time.

  The only disadvantage to building a Permanent Staging Area is that it requires
  disk space. However, the required disk space is always less than that of   installing the product, since each product in the Staging Area is placed there
  in compressed format.

  The only advantage of installing directly from tape is that no extra disk   space is required in creating a stage.

  The obvious disadvantage is that if you choose to install directly from tape,
  then any subsequent product installations or re-installations will also have
  to be directly from tape. There are better ways to spend one's time than   waiting for the Installer to work its way through the tape just to find the
  product that one needs to install.

  If you are low on disk space but like the idea of building a staging area, you
  may create a temporary staging area. The difference between a temporary and
  permanent staging area is that once a product is installed from a temporary
  staging area, it is removed from the temporary staging area and can't be   re-installed from there. If you need to re-install that product, then you   will either have to re-build the temporary staging area with the product, or
  install it directly from tape.Neither process is very time-efficient, so it's
  not necessarily a good deal.

  If you have the disk space, build a Permanent Staging Area. You'll save   yourself a lot of time and trouble.

  To build a Permanent Staging Area from tape, select the 'Build Staging Area
  Only From Tape' option from the 'Install Actions' screen. The Installer will
  ask you for the rewinding and non-rewinding Tape device names. Once the   installer has read in the tape header information, it will create a 'stage'
  directory under your $ORACLE_HOME directory.

"The Views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Oracle Corporation"

"Che" <pluto_at_tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:85r68n$976$2_at_lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
> Do you can give me an explanation about the STAGING AREA?
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Received on Sun Jan 16 2000 - 12:48:09 CST