ORACLE_HOME handling during TimeFinder cloning of DB
We are developing a method for creating restartable clones of Oracle DBs 11gR2 using TimeFinder clones.
This is a split-mirror procedure for the diskgroup devices which provides a binary copy of each device.
To do this, we are creating copies of all disks in the ASM diskgroups using the EMC consistency split. A question has come up whether it
is necessary to also clone drives containing the ORACLE_HOME. It's our impression we would only need to create an ORACLE_HOME
set of directories once for each cloned instance on the target machine.
Also, we will be using nid to rename the cloned databases. Will this utility also change the directory names in the ORACLE_HOME tree?
To do this, we are creating copies of all disks in the ASM diskgroups using the EMC consistency split. A question has come up whether it
is necessary to also clone drives containing the ORACLE_HOME. It's our impression we would only need to create an ORACLE_HOME
set of directories once for each cloned instance on the target machine.
Also, we will be using nid to rename the cloned databases. Will this utility also change the directory names in the ORACLE_HOME tree?
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