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Backup of the Oracle home can be taken using any preferred method. You can use any tool such as zip, tar, and cpio to Show More
compress the Oracle home.

It is highly recommended to take a backup of the Oracle_Home binaries and Cnetral Inventory prior to applying patchsets or Information Centers
patches. It should also be done as part of a standard backup schedule. Oracle Catalog: Information
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It is also suggested but not mandatory that the database(s),listeners, any processes in the source home are shutdown so Products and Services [50.2]
that cold backup of the Oracle Home software can be taken. However if you are applying patches or patchsets the instructions Information Center: OCI
stated in the README file may state a shutdown is required in which case a suggestion might be to take cold backups of the Networking - Email Delivery
ORACLE_HOME during this scheduled maintenance outage. Taking backups while Oracle processes are active should also be [2886428.2]
valid becuase any processes that load the static binaries or libraries into memory should not hold a write lock. Again this note Information Center: OCI Cloud
only speaks about the ORACLE_HOME software and not databases. Guard [2765346.2]

The backup must be taken by the user that owns the Oracle installation or root user. The intention is to make sure that the Information Center: OCI
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ownership/permissions of the files is preserved correctly. [2922704.2]

Below example shows use of tar command. Information Center: Oracle

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1. (Suggested but not mandatory) Shutdown databases, listeners, or any other processes related to
the ORACLE_HOME which you are taking backup. Show More

2. cd to the directory where ORACLE_HOME is located for example:

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cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2

3. backup the ORACLE_HOME for example: Recently Viewed

tar -pcvf /u01/app/oracle/backup/oracle_home_bkup.tar db1 How To Download And

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In the above example, ORACLE_HOME is /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2/db1 and backup the directory is OPatch(6880880) Version
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Below is an example of restoring the ORACLE_HOME:
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1. (This step would be mandatory in the case of restore) Shutdown databases, listeners, or any other
processes related to the ORACLE_HOME which you are restoring. Error 16063 archiving LNO:n
to '<db>'
2. Go to the directory where ORACLE_HOME is located for example: [2722180.1]
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cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2 If The TDE Wallet Is Lost
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3. Rename or move the current ORACLE_HOME for example: [2560069.1]

mv db1 db1_bkup Problems In Restoring

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 4. Restore the ORACLE_HOME for example: - ORA-19913: unable to
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tar -pxvf /u01/app/oracle/backup/oracle_home_bkup.tar
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Make sure that is enough enough free disk space before doing the backup.

The Central Inventory where the Oracle_Home is registered should also be part of the backup plan and taken at the same time
as the ORACLE_HOME backup for consistency.

The Central Inventory contains information relating to the Oracle_Home's installed on a host. Review the following note for
more information:

<Note 564192.1> FAQs on Central Inventory and Oracle Home Inventory (Local Inventory) in Oracle RDBMS

To determine where the Central Inventory (oraInventory) is located review the following file depending upon the platform:

/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc

or

/etc/oraInst.loc

The contents of oraInst.loc file will look something like this for example:

inventory_loc=/oracle/product/oraInventory
inst_group=dba

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