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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:29:11 GMT, "koert54" <koert54_at_nospam.com>
wrote:
Oracle has a documented process that you should follow. They assume you don't know what you are doing. I understand from their point of view. Hopefully both machines have the same patch level. The below worked fine even though you should do the upgrade at the base level of software. The below was not the case but it worked. I have used this system (development box!) for a year with no problems and no one ever knew but me. May not be your case, however!
tar -cf - /u01/app/oracle/product/817 | rsh xxx46u "tar -xvf - " tar -cf - /u01/app/oracle/doc | rsh xxx46u "tar -xvf - " tar -cf - /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.1.8 | rsh xxx46u "tar -xvf - " tar -cf - /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory | rsh xxx46u "tar -xvf - " tar -cf - /u01/app/oracle/oui | rsh xxx46u "tar -xvf - " rcp -rp /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc xxx46u:/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
relink all
I had a spare machine and used the above to put all the code on another machine. The tar preserves the symbolic links in UNIX.
>Your binaries will be out of sync with the ora-inventory ... this means that
>every time you want to install something
>through oracle installer you'll be screwed ...
>
Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 19:01:24 CST