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Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 6 · Cloning

The clone process, end to end

Lesson 58 of 184 · 2 min

Preparing the source, copying, and configuring the target. THE WHOLE SEQUENCE ONCE, before any of the detail. Three phases, and holding them apart is what makes the detail in the following lessons make sense. PREPARE THE SOURCE. A utility is run on the source instance which captures its configuration into a form the target can consume — on both tiers. It does not change the source and it does not require an outage, which is what makes cloning from production possible at all. Lesson 3 is the timing detail. COPY. The application file system and the database files are moved to the target host. This is the long phase and it is entirely a file transfer — hours on a real estate, and the duration is the reason a clone is planned rather than performed on request. CONFIGURE THE TARGET. A utility is run on the target which rewrites the…

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In this module: Module 6 · Cloning

  1. 1Why anybody wants a clone
  2. 2The clone process, end to end
  3. 3Preparing the source without an outage
  4. 4Configuring the target
  5. 5What a clone does not copyFree preview
  6. 6The post-clone checklist
  7. 7Cloning between different hosts and versions
  8. 8Refreshing rather than cloning
  9. 9Making it repeatable
  10. 10What breaks: four cloning failures
  11. 11Lab briefing · Clone, then find what you missed