On Mar 21, 7:13 pm, "joel garry" <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 1:25 pm, hotm6..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
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> > I was wondering if anyone had any experience cloning an Oracle
> > database server with Acronis or Ghost. This is a 10G Enterprise Non-
> > RAC server. I have had good experience with cloning SQLServer
> > servers. I have not done this before but would like to try. I am in
> > a crunch for time.
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> > This is my task list:
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> > 1. Run sysprep on my server.
> > 2. Create the image
> > 3. Restore the image.
> > 4. Take the server off the network & reboot
> > 5. Name the new server and join the domain.
> > 6. Reconfigure IP.
> > 7. [Figure out a way to rename the server instance / SID]
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> > What steps do I need to perform to complete the cloning safely? What
> > are the gotcha's for this type of thing?
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> > Thanks for your help in advance.
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> I successfully tested this with ghost once on 9iR2. There were many
> possible gotchas, too many to remember, fortunately I didn't have to
> implement it. Oracle has its own way of doing some things that don't
> necessarily jibe with the Microsoft way. One gotcha was simply so
> many manual steps made it likely to fail.
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> To be safe, listen to Sybrand.
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> You _want_ to separate out the processes of creating a server,
> installing Oracle, and cloning a database. Each of those is well-
> defined and well-supported. The latter two can be automated if you
> have sufficient reason and time. I claim not to know about the server
> creation, and my opinion of it would probably not be constructive if
> anything MS is involved. But I will say Alaska is in the news,
> something about $38B.
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> You definitely need to learn the ins and outs of RMAN before you hit
> any kind of crunch. Crunch time and learning are not happy together.
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> jg
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Thanks Joel. I appreciate your help.
Received on Thu Mar 22 2007 - 08:56:38 CDT
