Shastry, Yes that's what we are planning, like installing the oracle binaries and do a refresh of the database with the latest cold backup. Would like to know any step by step guide or instruction note id for the database refresh on windows machine as i am comfortable with unix db refresh.Else please suggests the steps if possible for the windows database refresh. with regards Vijay On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Shastry DBA <shastry17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > You cannot clone the oracle software binaries on windows like unix, rather > have a fresh installation of oracle software and refresh the database with > the backup of your previous database. > > Sent from my iPod > An:-) > > On 12-Jan-2010, at 2:42 PM, vijay gopi <gopvijay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All, > > Adding on to the previous post,the application is not E-business suite and > we use a java based application as front end and the datbase runs in 10G,so > this refresh is for the database alone. > > pls provide your thougts at the earliest. > > with regards > vijay > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:39 PM, vijay gopi <gopvijay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> All, >> >> We are planning to install oracle 10g Release2(10.2.0.1.0) on windows 2003 >> Advanced server,and we are planning to clone the exisiting oracle binaries >> from server windows XP Professional with SP2,32 bit edition and use the same >> in windows 2003 Advanced server.can anyone please post a document on the >> Database clone side methodology or step by step instruction guide or note >> id. >> >> Please let us know whether any specific issues during 10G clone(similar to >> building repository or any known issues) which needs to be looked in. >> with regards >> vijay >> > >