Oracle Software Cloning.

On Source

$ emctl stop dbconsole

$ lsnrctl stop

$ cd/u01/app/oracle/product

tar -cvzf /tmp/ohome.tgz 11.2.0/

On Target

Copy Oracle Home to target and extract

$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product

$ tar -xvzf /tmp/ohome.tar

Execute the clone script.

[oracle@canada ~]$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/clone/bin/


[oracle@canada bin]$ perl clone.pl ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/
product/11.2.0/db_1 ORACLE_HOME_NAME=11GR2_HOME_TEST
./runInstaller -clone -waitForCompletion  "ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle" "ORACLE_HOME=/u01/
app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1" "ORACLE_HOME_NAME=11GR2_HOME_TEST" -silent -noConfig -nowait 
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 2996 MB    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2012-02-25_02-12-10PM. 
Please wait ...Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.2.0.1.0 Production
Copyright (C) 1999, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.

You can find the log of this install session at:
 /u01/app/oraInventory/logs/cloneActions2012-02-25_02-12-10PM.log
............................................................................................
........ 100% Done.



Installation in progress (Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:13:11 PM IST)
..............................................................................                                                  78% Done.
Install successful

Linking in progress (Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:13:49 PM IST)
Link successful

Setup in progress (Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:17:19 PM IST)
Setup successful

End of install phases.(Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:25:41 PM IST)
Starting to execute configuration assistants
The following configuration assistants have not been run. This can happen because Oracle Universal
 Installer was invoked with the -noConfig option.
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The "/u02/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/cfgtoollogs/configToolFailedCommands" script contains all
commands that failed, were skipped or were cancelled. This file may be used to run these
configuration assistants outside of OUI. Note that you may have to update this script with 
passwords (if any) before executing the same.
The "/u02/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/cfgtoollogs/configToolAllCommands" script contains all 
commands to be executed by the configuration assistants. This file may be used to run the 
configuration assistants outside of OUI. Note that you may have to update this script with 
passwords (if any) before executing the same.

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WARNING:
The following configuration scripts need to be executed as the "root" user.
/u02/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/root.sh
To execute the configuration scripts:
    1. Open a terminal window
    2. Log in as "root"
    3. Run the scripts
    
The cloning of 11GR2_HOME_TEST was successful.
Please check '/u01/app/oraInventory/logs/cloneActions2012-02-25_02-12-10PM.log' for more details.


--Run the above script using root user

[root@canada ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/root.sh

Check /u02/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/install/root_canada_2012-02-25_14-27-47.log for the output 
of root script