We had to copy binaries a few times in order not to miss undocumented one-off patches applied. You know, you make a new installation and old solved problems are reborn.
That is not too easy to perform, though.
You have to recreate all the symbolic links (I suppose it's a unix system), keep the file permissions and ownership (some files belong to root) and make a "relink all" to make it work fine (both servers should have the same unix version).

Since oracle installation is pretty fast nowadays, I'd rather install it than make a copy (and adjust everything). It seems safer.
Unless that specific situation (unknown patches applied) arises.

Hope it helps.

Regards.

Newton






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De: Andrews Jain [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x1743518.[Email address protected]
Enviada em: terça-feira, 30 de outubro de 2007 05:08
Para: LazyDBA Discussion
Assunto: Oracle binaries from installation vs file system

Hi Gurus



Is it preferable to installed Oracle from the CD for each machine or is
it okay if the binaries are copied from another installation? Along with
binaries, Is there any files that I must copy for the process?? Expert
advice please



Regards



Jain Andrews



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