Rapid Clone R12.1.3 Basic steps

Rapid Clone R12.1.3 Basic steps

Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [ID 406982.1]

PRECLONE PART

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1) DB Tier preparation for Cloning

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login in as Oracle user

Run the following commands:

RDBMS HOME = $ORACLE_HOME

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts/<context_name>

$ perl adpreclone.pl dbTier

2) Apps Tier preparation for Cloning

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login in as applmgr user 

Run Pre-Clone on all the nodes that contains an APPL_TOP.

$cd $INST_TOP/admin/scripts

$perl adpreclone.pl appsTier

COPY PART

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3) Application copy

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Copy or Tar ball or sftp source system application tier file system to the target system.

Note: You need not to shutdown your source system application node for this step.

File System which need to be Tar ball or sftp to target system from Source System 

includes:

APPL_TOP

COMMON_TOP

ORACLEAS_10.1.2_ORACLE_HOME

ORACLEAS_10.1.3_ORACLE_HOME

4) Database copy

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below is the method for cold copy :

copy or TAR ball or sftp source system database tier file system to the target system.

a) This step require you bring down your source sytem (i.e database node) as user oracle. 

b) Shutdown normal the source system database

c) copy the database (.dbf) files from the source to the target system

d) copy or TAR ball or sftp the source database ORACLE_HOME to the target system.

you can go for hot backup by RMAN of source database, moving the backup pieces to the target node and doing recovery. By this method you don't have to bring down Source database

Activities on target

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5) DBTier Configuration and then start the Target System database Server

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login in as Oracle user

RDBMS_HOME = $ORACLE_HOME

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/clone/bin

$ perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier

You will be prompted wfor the values specific to the target system like SID,port etc.

6)  Apps Tier configuration on Target system application Server nodes

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$ cd $INST_TOP/admin/scripts

$ adautocfg.sh