Re: Rebuilding a database server
- From: Mark Bole <makbo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:34:22 -0800
Carel-Jan Engel wrote:
> Hi Larry,
[...]
>
> You can copy the whole software tree (e.g. /opt/oracle/...) including
> admin directories. Under 8i this works fine, from 9i onwards it is
> getting more complicated due to all kind of server-dependent enties in
> oraInventory and in the software directories, especially when using
> things as iAS and Grid Control.
> [...]
>
> HTH, Carel-Jan
>
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 12:51, Larry Hahn wrote:
>>
>>We lost the server that we used as our standby database.
>>Its 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 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 dont 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
>
At http://www.bincomputing.com/orahome_clone.html I've got a write-up of
one way to reliably copy an Oracle software installation
($ORACLE_HOME) under Unix. It has worked fine for me dozens of times
under both Solaris and Linux, RDBMS versions 8i, 9i and even 10g,
including your scenario of creating a standby home.
YMMV.
-Mark Bole
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