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AdminGreg

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I am new to Oracle, we are trying to take our database and copy it onto a test server. I am brand new to oracle and don't know where to start. can anyone help?
 
Here are the steps:

1)Backup the source controlfile using the command
ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE;

2) Alter all the tablespaces in the database into backup mode spool /tmp/begin_backup.sql
select "ALTER TABLESPACE " || TABLESPACE_NAME|| ' BEGIN BACKUP ; ' from DBA_TABLESPACES ;
spool off
@/tmp/begin_backup.sql


3) Copy all the datafiles from the source machine to the target machine (using ftp or rcp)

4) Alter all the tablespaces in the database out of backup mode on the source database:
spool /tmp/end_backup.sql
select "ALTER TABLESPACE " || TABLESPACE_NAME|| ' END BACKUP ; ' from DBA_TABLESPACES ;
spool off
@/tmp/end_backup.sql

5) Force an archivelog switch on the source database: alter system archive log current;

6) Copy all the archivelog that were generated since you started the copy to the target machine.

7) Setup all necessary files for the target database (init.ora, dump directory, listener.ora, tnsnames.ora, etc.

8) Copy the create controlfile script to the target machine (name it create.sql). I store all the scripts that I used to create the database in the $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/create directory.

9) Modify the create.sql file, change the create controlfile statement from CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "SRCDB" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG to : CREATE CONTROLFILE SET DATABASE "TGTDB" RESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG

10) Change the location of the redo logs

11) Delete all the trace lines at the beginning of the file, up until the "create controlfile" statement. Under the the "DATAFILE" statement, change the location of the datafiles. I prefer to delete all the lines, then use this command in vi to add the datafile locations back:
:r !ls /*/oradata/tgtdb/*.dbf

12) Delete the "recover database", "alter database open", and trace files from the create.sql script.

13) Start svrmgrl or sqlplus, connect internal, and execute the "create.sql" scripts, recover the database
svrmgrl "command=connect internal"
@create
recover database using backup controlfile ;
alter database open resetlogs;

To make the copy using export/import, I would suggest using a named pipe for the export/import.

1) Disable all foreign constraints on the target database (you can leave the primary and unique constraints)

2) Create the named pipe on the target machine
mknod /tmp/exp.dmp p

3) Start a background process that will import database as it is written to the pipe (on the target machine):
imp system/manager file=/tmp/exp.dmp full=y ignore=y log=/tmp/imp.log &

4) Start the export of the source database on the target machine exp system/manager@sourcedb file=/tmp/exp.dmp full=y log=/tmp/exp.log
 
sign in as sys - this will give you all the priviledges to perform above steps.

and use your server propmpt - usually $
 
thanks a lot, everything worked 100%

thanks again.
 
Greg, you do all the work in the command prompt in windows or unix/linux

c:>sqlplus/nolog
sqlplus> connect sys as sysdba
password: <enter password >

sqlplus> {do your work here}

 
Greg,

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