Clone Software Only 300062

CLONING ORACLE_HOME (Software Only) Follow Document 300062.1 to clone Software only (Oracle_Home) Clone any ORACLE_HOME of any version except 9.2.0.4. Reason: 415864.1 Purpose: This document will describe how to clone (make a copy of) an existing RDBMS installation using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI). Cloning Software/Oracle_home Alone: Steps to follow:  As source user(oracle9i) do the following  Like database patchsets, the clonerstage patches are cumulative so download clonerpatch 5511585 and unzip the patch  Copy /u01/oracle9i/patches/files/sysman/clonerStage to ORACLE_HOME/sysman  cd /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/sysman/clonerStage/db/p46 unzip ClonerStage_9.2.0.8.0.zip  Make a copy of the existing (source) Oracle RDBMS installation. If the clone (target) installation is on the same server then the "cp -Rp" command could be used. cp -Rp /u01/oracle9i/product/9.2.0 /u01/oracle9i/9.2.0_clone  cd $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/clonerStage/db/p46/ClonerStage  perl clone.pl ORACLE_HOME="/u01/oracle9i/product_clone" ORACLE_HOME_NAME="/u01/oracle9i/product  Run root.sh (as root) from the target home. Hence Cloning Software is Successful