How to clone the Oracle database software

This note describes the process of cloning an Oracle Home - in this case we are cloning a 11g Release 2 Oracle Home from source machine devastator to target machine vixen. On source (devastator) ORA !"#HO$" location is % &u'1&app&oracle&product&11.2.'&dbhome#1 (o to director) on source machine one level higher and tar the db#home1 director) and all sub-directories
devastator:$ pwd devastator:$ /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0 devastator:$ tar -cvf 11gr2.tar dbhome_1

On Target (vixen) reate the director) &u'1&app&oracle&product&11.2.' if it does not exist On Source scp or ftp the tar file to this location on the target machine
devastator:$ scp -rp 11gr2.tar oracle@vixen:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0

On target *ncompress the tar file

vixen:$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0 vixen:$ tar -xvf 11gr2.tar

lone the Oracle Home using the perl script clone.pl which is located under the +ORA !"#HO$"&clone&bin
vixen:$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/clone/bin vixen:$ perl clone.pl !"#$%_&"'%(/u01/app/oracle !"#$%_) *%(/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 !"#$%_) *%_+"*%(11,!2_) *%
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Run the root.sh script as root

F pwd /u%&/app/oracle/product/&&.).%/d*+ome!& F ./root.sh C+ec1 /u%&/app/oracle/product/&&.).%/d*+ome!&/install/root!devastator!)%&%-%6)8!%9-4)-3&.lo/ .or t+e output o. root script vixen:$cat /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/install/root_vixen_2010-0--2._0/02-11.log
Runnin/ Oracle &&/ root.s+ script... D+e .ollowin/ environment varia*les are set as: ORACL !OC, R$ oracle ORACL !'O( $ /u%&/app/oracle/product/&&.).%/d*+ome!& ntries will *e added to t+e /var/opt/oracle/orata* .ile as needed *< Aata*ase Con.i/uration Assistant w+en a data*ase is created Finis+ed runnin/ /eneric part o. root.s+ script. ,ow product-speci.ic root actions will *e per.ormed. Finis+ed product-speci.ic root actions.

,e can now chec- that the Ora.nventor) has been updated with the 11g Release 2 Oracle Home details. On this machine/ earlier there was onl) a 1'g Oracle Home installed. ,hen we chec- the contents of the inventor).xml file/ we will see that it has information about the 11g Oracle Home 0 11(R2#HO$"
vixen:$ cat /var/opt/oracle/ora2nst.loc

inventor)#loc1&u'1&app&oracle&ora.nventor) inst#group1dba
vixen:$cd /u01/app/oracle/ora2nventor3 vixen:$ ls *ac1up oraInstaller.properties Contents orainstRoot.s+ vixen:$cd #ontents4*$ vixen:$ ls comps.xml inventor<.xml li*s.xml

ContentsG(L oui install.plat.orm sessionContext.se

lo/s oraInst.loc

vixen:$ vi inventor3.xml
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