Yves,

rman does the job.
Look in Oracle Documentation for Recovery Manager (RMAN).
You'll find examples in the your ORACLE_HOME und rdbms/admin.

HTH
Robbie

> I need to create 8 instances that are basically the same with minor
> differences. I know it is possible to clone 1 instance from another. Any
> documents that exists to do this?


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