I'd rather know what the OS patch level was going forward and strive for a current, more secure level that is Sun recommended. Making the two servers the same gives you two, backleveled, insecure unknowns. I doubt Oracle will choke on a different OS security patch level, I've never see that happen anyway. Security patches are released for a reason. Exploits become scripted and in the wild. Keeping to old security patch levels is like teasing a Rottweiler. Assuming the data is of value, anyway. Nice doggy! On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:51:12AM -0800, Larry Hahn wrote: > List, > > We lost the server that we used as our standby database. > It?s Sun Solaris 2.8 running Oracle 8.1.7.3. We have to > move it to another Sun server. Because the database > software was loaded by the vendor for our production and > standby server a long time ago, I am not sure what patches > have been installed on the original box over time. > > I had a thought that may sound strange, but I would like > opinions. > > I was thinking of using a production backup to ?install? > Oracle on this new server to make it identical to > production. I know I can load everything from the /data1 > directories. But what about files it installs onto the > system drive? I have identified a few files in the /var > directory, but is there a list of files somewhere that > Oracle loads to the system drive. > > I don?t know. This may be a really bad idea. But I figured > it was the best way to assure the two looked as close as > possible. I would appreciate any thoughts and opinions. > > Thanks, > > Larry Hahn > > > ===== > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- =============================================================== Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 28^D -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l