Re: Oracle software cloning

From: Jan Krueger <jk_at_stud.uni-hannover.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:31:12 +0200
Message-ID: <46cf074c$0$29376$4c56b896@news-read1.lambdanet.net>

Anthony wrote:
> Hi. I am reading chapter 7 of the Oracle Universal Installer (10gR2)
> on how to clone an oracle home directory (Note: not a database). Has
> anyone done it before? Is it workable? I examine the prepare_clone.pl
> mentioned in the documentation. Alas, it is basically an empty script
> doing nothing.
>
> Thanks for any idea.
>
> Anthony
>

Yes, I do this on a regular basis but without the universal installer. That means, the cloned binaries can't be updated or patched because they don't have their own oracle inventory. But this doesn't really matter, because after the clone base is upgraded, patching only means recloning the binaries.

The following steps have to be applied.
1. substitute all absolute softlinks by relative ones (tbd automatically by a script)

2. clone the oracle_home with tar
3. edit nmliblist and config.s
4. relink all

Jan Received on Fri Aug 24 2007 - 11:31:12 CDT