Cloning an Oracle RDBMS Home

In this case I want to clone just an Oracle 11.2.0.3 Home back to the UAT machine, and then I can run databases against it.

we are following

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/app_cloning.htm#sthref782


Step 1.  Zip/Tar up the existing home and transfer and unzip it to the destination location.

In this case this is

/u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1/network/admin


So this is our starting point.  If we wanted to we could start databases now, but the clone is not finished as the inventory is not done properly, and a load of other steps.

Remove all the .ora files in $OH/network/admin on the cloned home.


Let's establish some Parameters ( needed before proceeding )

ORACLE_BASE=/u11/app/oracle11t
ORACLE_HOME=/u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1/
OSDBA_GROUP=dba
OSOPER_GROUP= 
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="CLONED11203"


[oracle11t@vostok bin]$ perl clone.pl ORACLE_HOME=/u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1/ ORACLE_BASE=/u11/app/oracle11t OSDBA_GROUP=dba ORACLE_HOME_NAME="CLONED11203"

./runInstaller -clone -waitForCompletion  "ORACLE_HOME=/u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1/" "ORACLE_BASE=/u11/app/oracle11t" "oracle_install_OSDBA=dba" "ORACLE_HOME_NAME=CLONED11203" -silent -noConfig -nowait

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 39687 MB    Passed

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-01-17_02-52-40PM. Please wait ...Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.2.0.2.0 Production

Copyright (C) 1999, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.

You can find the log of this install session at:

 /oracle/oraInventory/logs/cloneActions2013-01-17_02-52-40PM.log

.................................................................................................... 100% Done.

Installation in progress (Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:52:53 PM GMT)

..............................................................................                                                  78% Done.

Install successful

Linking in progress (Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:52:59 PM GMT)

Link successful

Setup in progress (Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:53:55 PM GMT)

Setup successful

End of install phases.(Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:53:59 PM GMT)

WARNING:

The following configuration scripts need to be executed as the "root" user.

/u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1//root.sh

To execute the configuration scripts:

    1. Open a terminal window

    2. Log in as "root"

    3. Run the scripts

The cloning of CLONED11203 was successful.

Please check '/oracle/oraInventory/logs/cloneActions2013-01-17_02-52-40PM.log' for more details.

dbhome_1]# ./root.sh

Check /u11/app/oracle11t/product/11.2.0.3/dbhome_1//install/root__2013-01-17_14-55-11.log for the output of root script

And that's all there is; the Oracle Home should now be usable, registered, and patched. 

Note there is a whole other set of work to clone the database, but it is not that difficult with the current toolses. 

Regards

Chris.