Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Cloning Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Another very important utility to back up your environment and create an exact replica of it at a later stage, or at a different location altogether, is cloning. As the word suggests, cloning not only copies an existing environment to a different location, but also preserves its state, enabling you to create a new Middleware Home with all post-installation patches. Cloning is also a highly effective way to have the same snapshot and configurations across different distributed environments.

Cloning an existing Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure is a multistep process that needs to be executed in a sequential manner as shown in the following screenshot:

1. The Middleware binary movement involves activities needed to create ...