Re: Moving Oracle Server Software

I'm not sure you'll smack into the same problem I found myself last week.

I had two instances running off the same "product tree"; /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6
One was a DEV instance & the other was a PROD instance. I wanted to apply the V8.1.6.3 patch to just the DEV for testing. So I cloned the old tree to be /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6.3 and proceeded to get the DEV instance running of the new tree. I ran that way for a couple of days to make sure that all was OK. So then I started to apply the V8.1.6.3 patchset only to have the OUI inform me that no upgrade was possible. Because this new "HOME" was not reflected within the oraInventory directory, the OUI refused to proceed with the upgrade. GOTCHA!

HTH & YMMV! Steve Orr wrote:
>
> In order to implement a triple mirror I need to move the Oracle Server
> software (8.1.6.). Rather than re-install Oracle I'm thinking about just
> moving everything to a different mount point (another volume). What are the
> steps?
>
> 1) shutdown the database.
> 2) copy software from oldmount01 to newmount01 as follows:
> $ cd /oldmount01
> $ find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmv /newmount01
> 3) edit init.ora file as necessary
> 4) edit oratab file as necessary
> 5) change path and environment variables in .profile of oracle account.
> 6) edit all supporting shell scripts as necessary
> 7) edit listener.ora file as necessary (references $ORACLE_HOME)
> 8) cross fingers and restart the database
> 9) clean/remove up oldmount01 files
>
> Anything else I need to consider? Recommendations?
>
> TIA!!!
> Steve Orr
>
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