How best to move oracle9 db and binaries between similiar unix servers?

Hi - we need to move a 9.2.0.3 database from one AIX server to another. Both servers have similiar hardware and are at the same O/S level (AIX4.3.3).

Our change window is short so ideally we would simply like to tarball
$ORACLE_BASE on Server A and untar on server B.

Does anyone have experience with this approach? Is this method supported? And is there any documentation available specifically describing the files and directories the rdbms accesses outside of
$ORACLE_BASE such as the ones in /etc/ and /usr/local/ .

thanks very much Received on Thu Jul 10 2003 - 12:41:10 CDT