Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.11: RMAN + Rapid Clone
Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environments is a critical part of managing development, testing, and DR landscapes. In this post, we walk through the process of cloning EBS 12.2.11 from a production environment to a non-production one using RMAN active duplication and Oracle Rapid Clone utilities . Clone Scenario Source Database CDB : PRODCDB Source PDB : prod Target Database CDB : RNDCDB Target PDB : RND Step 1: Prepare the Target Server Create Required Directories mkdir -p /u01/oracle/RNDCDB mkdir -p /u01/oracle/RND mkdir -p /u01/oracle/clone_logs Verify Swap Space (Must be ≥ 16GB) free -h Step 2: Run Pre-Clone on Source Database Tier cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts/prod_PRODCDB perl adpreclone.pl dbTier Application Tier cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME perl adpreclone.pl appsTier Step 3: Clone the CDB with RMAN 3.1: Startup Target CDB in NOMOUNT Mode export ORACLE_SID=RNDCDB sqlplus / as sysdba STARTUP NOMOUNT; 3.2: Run RMAN Active Duplicate rman target sys@PRODCDB auxiliary sy...