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Ed
You should check out the Oracle documentation on the "RMAN" backup and recovery tool. This can create a full copy of a database for you which you can then update from the original whenever required.
Gary
"Ed" <sid.james_at_virgin.net> wrote in message
news:3DB71033.2ED8_at_virgin.net...
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know how to automate the cloning of an Oracle database on
> Solaris?
> At the moment we can do this manually by altering the control file to
> trace, copying and then renaming the datafiles but then there is manual
> stuff to do, like altering the crdb<INSTANCE_NAME>.sql file (sorry this
> is from memory).
>
> Anyone got a script they'd like to share?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Ed.
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 06:29:57 CDT